Possibly the most common use case in all of JavaScript for async and await is using the browser’s built-in fetch API. Listing 1 declares an async function and uses await within it.

The Fetch API and async() functions with await are modern JavaScript patterns that aren’t always supported by old browsers, particularly non-Edge IE browsers. Heed the warning about writing code ...

Asynchronous programming in JavaScript leverages features like callbacks, promises and async/await to sidestep this issue by allowing other code to run in the meantime. Synchronous Vs ...

This article introduces the three ways to handle asynchronous behavior in JavaScript. We’ll start with a look at callbacks, then I’ll introduce promises and the async and await keywords as ...

Topics covered in the workshop span a wide range of modern JavaScript capabilities, including built-in methods for streamlining code, robust exception handling, variable scope and hoisting, ES6 ...