Promise vs Observable in JavaScript

Promises provide a single future value while Observables provide any number of future values.

Observables are not a superset of Promises as they are inifinite lists that can be composed using various operators such as map, filter or reduce.

Observables can be cancelled while Promises cannot be cancelled.

Streams in Node.js are not observables.

Promises return a value only once while Observables may return a value more than once.