Here's an more extensible solution based on the post [polling with async/await][1]

Just add the following utility methods:

```js
const poll = async function (fn, fnCondition, ms) {
  let result = await fn();
  while (fnCondition(result)) {
    await wait(ms);
    result = await fn();
  }
  return result;
};

const wait = function (ms = 1000) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(resolve, ms);
  });
};
```

Then you can call it like this:

```js
let fetchReport = () => axios.get(reportUrl);
let validate = result => !result.data.summary;
let response = await poll(fetchReport, validate, 3000);
```

[1]: https://dev.to/jakubkoci/polling-with-async-await-25p4

I am currently trying to add polling to my application using this link https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-polling (and many others).

I have access to the following already implemented api:

    client.get('url')
    // returns Promise with result of getting result from url
    // for the application I am working on,
    //     the URL returns json that looks like the following 
    //     {status: DONE or IN PROGRESS, other values...}
    // when status is DONE other values are what I will use in the application

    client.post('url', {data: passAnyDataHere}) 
    // sends a post request with result of sending data to url
    // starts the specific job

One of the problems that I have run into is that while trying to adapt the JavaScript Polling code I linked to above, when I find out that the status is DONE, I have no way of returning the result to outside of the Promise.  **Can someone give me tips on how to do this?** (polling until I find a specific value, and then return the value for use later)

Let me give you an example

    export default function someFunction() {
        let a = client.get('/status');
        a.then( dataResult => 
          {
             if (dataResult.status == "DONE") {
                //** want to get other values in dataResult here 
                // and store it somewhere else for use later
             }
          });
        // ***want to work with results here.
        // need some way to get the status of what happened inside the .then(..) part
       //  eventually have to return success or failure and results to the frontend
       // (this part is already done)
     }

The base of the code is https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example#server-side-data-fetching (uses React.js/Node.js/Redux/etc.)

Any tips/suggestions/help are/is appreciated. Thanks!

Also, the application I am working on does not use JQuery.