update to support chaining & incorporate short-circuit as a return flag

[JakobJingleheimer]

Forked from #32

[GeoffreyBooth]

Thanks for doing this. I know this is “my” proposal so if you want me to take it from here just let me know and I’ll try to find the time, otherwise I’m happy for you to keep improving it.

[GeoffreyBooth]

We should probably have an example of shortCircuit: true in either the resolve or load chains. Like maybe for load it could be ordered so that https always runs, and then either CoffeeScript or Babel: CoffeeScript if we have CoffeeScript to process, and then short-circuit; or Babel otherwise, and then short-circuit.

[JakobJingleheimer]

Mm, agreed. I thiiink the mock-loader example I was planning to (subsequently?) add would have a shortCircuit in resolve.

[JakobJingleheimer]

@GeoffreyBooth whichever 🙂 If I do keep it, I also don't mind if you make updates (rather than wait for me to do it).

[GeoffreyBooth]

@JakobJingleheimer I did a quick pass to resolve my notes other than the “we should add a short circuit example” one.

[GeoffreyBooth]

I think the name for this pattern is the “middleware” pattern: https://muniftanjim.dev/blog/basic-middleware-pattern-in-javascript/

Perhaps we should call it that rather than recursive? There’s not actually any recursion going on, it’s one function calling another that calls another.