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JavaScript Design Patterns
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JavaScript Design Patterns

by Hugo Di Francesco
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
6h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Asynchronous Programming Performance Patterns

A key strength of JavaScript runtimes is the event loop, which couples “non-blocking input/output” within a single-threaded execution model. This means JavaScript is great for high-concurrency systems as long as they are not compute-bound systems (i.e., they’re IO-bound).

With the asynchronous and non-blocking IO, JavaScript has strong built-ins to orchestrate requests. In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Sequential and parallel asynchronous operation patterns in JavaScript, both with Promises only and with async/await
  • The cancellation and timeout of fetch requests with AbortController
  • Advanced asynchronous operation patterns: throttling, debouncing, and batching

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