Learning jQuery Deferreds

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. About You
   2. Our Aims
   3. Challenges
   4. jQuery Deferreds
   5. Our JavaScript Coding Style, or Lack Thereof
   6. Conventions Used in This Book
   7. Using Code Examples
   8. Safari® Books Online
   9. How to Contact Us
   10. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Introduction
   1. Food for Thought
   2. Terminology: Deferreds and Promises
   3. Familiar Promises
3. 2. The jQuery Deferred API
   1. Consuming Promises
      1. More Terminology: Resolve, Reject and Progress
      2. done
      3. fail
      4. always
      5. progress
      6. promise
      7. then
      8. state
      9. when
   2. Creating Deferreds
      1. Construction
      2. resolve and resolveWith
      3. reject and rejectWith
      4. notify and notifyWith
   3. Putting It All Together
   4. Deferred Dynamics
   5. Deprecated Promise Methods
      1. isRejected and isResolved
      2. pipe
   6. Changes in the jQuery Deferred API
4. 3. Deferred Recipes
   1. A Replacement for the setTimeout Function
      1. Challenges
   2. Messaging in Chrome Extensions
      1. Challenges
   3. Accessing Chrome Local Storage
      1. Challenges
   4. Running Promise-Returning Functions One by One
      1. Challenges
   5. A Promise Pool with an emptyPromise Method
      1. Creating a Promise Pool
      2. Using the Promise Pool
      3. Challenges
   6. Displaying Google Maps
      1. Challenges
   7. Communicating with a Web Worker
      1. The Web Worker Code
      2. Creating a Web Worker
      3. Using It
      4. Summary
      5. Challenges
   8. Using Web Sockets
      1. The Web Socket Server
      2. The Web Socket Client
      3. Challenges
   9. Automatically Retrying Failing Deferred Calls
      1. Challenges
   10. Memoization
       1. Discussion
       2. Avoiding the Dogpile Effect
       3. Challenges
   11. Short-Term Memoization of In-Progress Function Calls
       1. createUser Is Not Idempotent
       2. Challenges
   12. Streaming Promise Events
       1. Delivering More Information
       2. Delegating the Event Stream
       3. To Be Continued…
       4. Challenges
   13. Getting the First Result from a Set of Promises
       1. Which Promise Fired?
       2. A Fly in the Soup
       3. delegateEventStream Redux
       4. Challenges
   14. A Deferred Queue
       1. Challenges
   15. when2: An Improved jQuery.when
       1. Using when2 to Time Out a Single Promise
       2. Differences from $.when
       3. Challenges
   16. Timing Out Promises
       1. Challenges
   17. Controlling Your Own Destiny
       1. Challenges
   18. Deactivating a Promise
       1. Challenges
5. 4. More Time in the Mental Gymnasium
   1. Do You Really Understand jQuery Deferreds?
   2. Promises/A+
   3. Promises Are First-Class Objects for Function Calls
   4. Asynchronous Data Structures
   5. Advantages of Deferreds
   6. Difficulties with Deferreds
   7. Further Reading
6. A. Hints for Selected Challenges
   1. A Replacement for the setTimeout Function
   2. Messaging in Chrome Extensions
   3. Accessing Chrome Local Storage
   4. Running Promise-Returning Functions One by One
   5. A Promise Pool with an emptyPromise Method
   6. Displaying Google Maps
   7. Communicating with a Web Worker
   8. Using Web Sockets
   9. Automatically Retrying Failing Deferred Calls
   10. Memoization
   11. Short-Term Memoization of In-Progress Function Calls
   12. Streaming Promise Events
   13. Getting the First Result from a Set of Promises
   14. A Deferred Queue
   15. when2: An Improved jQuery.when
   16. Timing Out Promises
   17. Controlling Your Own Destiny
   18. Deactivating a Promise
7. B. The Promises/A+ Specification
   1. Terminology
   2. Requirements
      1. Promise States
      2. The then Method
      3. The Promise Resolution Procedure
8. C. Converting an ArrayBuffer to Base 64
9. Colophon
10. Copyright