May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
706 pages
21h 15m
English
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Chapter 13. Asynchronous JavaScript
Some computer programs, such as scientific simulations and machine learning models, are compute-bound: they run continuously, without pause, until they have computed their result. Most real-world computer programs, however, are significantly asynchronous. This means that they often have to stop computing while waiting for data to arrive or for some event to occur. JavaScript programs in a web browser are typically event-driven, meaning that they wait for the user to click or tap before they actually do anything. And JavaScript-based servers typically wait for client requests to arrive over the network before they do anything.
This kind of asynchronous programming is commonplace in JavaScript, and
this chapter documents three important language features that help
make it easier to work with asynchronous code. Promises, new in
ES6, are objects that represent the not-yet-available result
of an asynchronous operation. The keywords async and await were
introduced in ES2017 and provide new syntax that simplifies
asynchronous programming by allowing you to structure your Promise-based
code as if it was synchronous. Finally, asynchronous iterators and the
for/await loop were introduced in ES2018 and allow you to
work with streams of asynchronous events using simple loops that
appear synchronous.
Ironically, even though JavaScript provides these powerful features for working with asynchronous code, there are no features of the core language that are ...
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