JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Development: The Essential Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools to Learn Right Now

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11. Async.js

Sufyan bin Uzayr¹ , Nicholas Cloud² and Tim Ambler³

(1)

Al Manama, United Arab Emirates

(2)

Florissant, MO, USA

(3)

Nashville, TN, USA

 

Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.

—Robert Jordan

We are now familiar with libraries and frameworks such as KnexJS and RequireJS, among many others. This chapter discusses Async.js, a callback-driven JavaScript library that provides a suite of powerful functions to manage asynchronous collection manipulation and control flow.

When it comes to asynchronous programming, it is often a standard ...