I like Jquery's Deferred better then ES6 Promise. Promises lack the `always` callback, they don't have any `progress` events.

The spec on mdn[0] doesn't mention asynchronous `then` or `catch` behavior. If the callback in Jquery `Deferred#then` returns a Deferred that deferred will be returned by `then`.

    // Basic async function, resolves after n milliseconds
    function wait(n) {
      var promise = $.Deferred();
      setTimeout(promise.resolve, n);
      return promise;
    }

    wait(10)
      .then(function() {
        console.log('first');  // prints first after 10 milliseconds
        return wait(10);
      })
      .then(function() {
        console.log('second'); // prints second after 20 milliseconds
        return 'done';
      })

You can 'flip' a failed promise by returning a resolve promise in the fail callback.

    var promise = $.Deferred();
    setTimeout(promise.reject, 100)

    promise.then(null, function () {
      return $.Deferred().resolve([]);
    }).done(function(arg) {
      console.log(arg); // Prints '[]'
    })

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...