Begin () == end () для любого пустого () вектора?

Для этого просто в ES6:

function(files) {

    // Create a new empty promise (don't do that with real people ;)
    var sequence = Promise.resolve();

    // Loop over each file, and add on a promise to the
    // end of the 'sequence' promise.
    files.forEach(function(file) {

      // Chain one computation onto the sequence
      sequence = sequence.then(function() {
        return performComputation(file);
      }).then(function(result) {
        doSomething(result) // Resolves for each file, one at a time.
      });

    })

    // This will resolve after the entire chain is resolved
    return sequence;
  }