Within these async functions, the "await" keyword pauses the execution until a promise is either resolved or rejected to let an asynchronous operation finish without blocking the whole program.

Asynchronous functions that use callbacks take a function as a parameter, which will be called once the work completes. If you’ve ever used something like setTimeout in the browser, you’ve ...

JavaScript’s async and await functions make for readable and maintainable asynchronous code. Just watch out for their downsides. Credit: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock ...

[Sandro Magi] noted that the async/await idiom has become more prevalent in programming recently. According to him, he first encountered it in C# but has found examples of it in JavaScript and Rust… ...

While JavaScript itself is single-threaded, many JavaScript functions have supported asynchronous processing through callbacks (the variations on the jQuery AJAX function are just the most obvious ...

The “i” var in the “doSomething” function is assigned the value returned by the immediate function. The “x” var is scoped to the immediate function giving us block-like scope for our variables. Of ...