Best Way To Handle Early Returns In Chains Of Promises?

What's the best way to handle early returns in Bluebird without throwing an error. For example, I have a conditional in the following: things.find(1) .then(function(thing) {

Solution 1:

Once a .then chain is formed, its natural behaviour is to run progressively to completion as each of its stages settles.

For an "early return" (not a good phrase but we know what you mean), you have three options :

• throw an error, or return a rejected promise, to bypass all success handlers until the next catch (or the end of the chain)
• return a promise that is guaranteed never to settle - eg return new Promise()
• compose the .then chain responsively (Esailija's answer)

Solution 2:

things.find(1).then(function(thing) {
  if (!thing.condition) return;
  return doStuff(thing)
    .then(...);
    .then(...);
})