How to check promise status [en]

After publishing https://xnim.me/blog/promises-and-gc I got some questions. One of them was how we can define current promise state? It's quite simple with resolve and reject states, but it could be a little bit tricky for the pending state. However, we have Promise.race that is quite handy in this way:

const pending = {
  state: "pending"
};

function getPromiseState(promise) {
  return Promise.race([promise, pending]).then(
    (value) => {
      if (value === pending) {
        return value;
      }
      return {
        state: "resolved",
        value
      };
    },
    (reason) => ({ state: "rejected", reason })
  );
}

Usage:

(async function () {
  let result = await getPromiseState(Promise.resolve("resolved hello world"));
  console.log(result);

  result = await getPromiseState(Promise.reject("rejected hello world"));
  console.log(result);

  result = await getPromiseState(new Promise(() => {}));
  console.log(result);

  result = await getPromiseState("Hello world");
  console.log(result);
})();

Example: https://codesandbox.io/s/restless-sun-njun1?file=/src/index.js