JavaScript has come a long way, says Sheriff, a long-time consultant and mentor. He notes that features like block-scoped variables, improved asynchronous patterns, and powerful templating options are ...

Promises and async/await have become popular mechanisms for implementing asynchronous computations in JavaScript, but despite their popularity, programmers have difficulty using them. This paper ...

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.

One pattern you can’t really avoid developing Javascript for Desktop is asynchronous code, Vortex is full of it and by writing an extension you’re bound to encounter it as well. It means that you ...

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code.

Asynchronous iterators for JavaScript AsyncIterator is a lightweight JavaScript implementation of demand-driven object streams, and an alternative to the two-way flow controlled Node.js Stream. As ...

JavaScript’s async and await functions make for readable and maintainable asynchronous code. Just watch out for their downsides.