Callbacks were the only natively supported way to deal with async code in JavaScript until 2016, when the Promise object was introduced to the language. However, JavaScript developers had been ...

async function getStarWarsData() { try { const response = await fetch('https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/'); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data ...

Promises and async/await functionality was already available by using the Babel transpiler, but it's getting formalized and baked into JavaScript. Other things are getting baked in, too, like arrow ...

By default, JavaScript is single-threaded, so you can only run one script at a time. With Promises, developers get a standardized way to make asynchronous calls in their code. For more details ...