React: Building Modern Web Applications

Writing asynchronous code

ES5 natively supports two patterns for writing the asynchronous code, that is, the event pattern and the callback pattern. While writing the asynchronous code, we usually start an asynchronous operation and register the event handlers or pass the callbacks, which will be executed once the operation is finished.

The event handlers or the callbacks are used, depending on how the specific asynchronous API is designed. An API that is designed for an event pattern can be wrapped with some custom code to create the callback pattern for the API, and vice-versa. For example, AJAX is designed for the event pattern, but jQuery AJAX exposes it as a callback pattern.

Let's consider some examples of writing asynchronous code involving ...