When writing a modern JavaScript application that uses Promises or async/await, it is sometimes useful to wrap other things in promises so they can more easily be used in a standard way throughout your codebase or in promise chains.

This is especially true if a built-in feature has the same properties of a promise, but is not one. The window.confirm API is one that I wrap a lot in my applications:

function confirmDialog(msg) {
  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    let confirmed = window.confirm(msg);

    return confirmed ? resolve(true) : reject(false);
  });
 }

And now we can use it just like a normal promise:

confirmDialog('Do you really want to delete this?')
  .then(() => doYourDeleteAction(task.id))
  .catch(err => alert('Unable to delete!'))

Now if you ever want to replace that confirm dialog with some custom version with a fancy UI like a modal window, you can do so much easier – just by updating the confirmDialog function itself.