Promises are fairly new to the JavaScript world, but workarounds have been around for some time now. As we have seen in the previous chapter, there are ways to address asynchronous programming in JavaScript, be it through events or callbacks. You also learned why promises differ from the traditional techniques for that purpose.
Next, we will go into more details of the Promise API. You will also learn about the current browser support for the promises standard and take a look at the JavaScript libraries out there that implement promises and promise-like features. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
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