The Joy of JavaScript

8 Linear async flows

This chapter covers

• Reviewing a basic Node.js architecture
• Working with the JavaScript Promise API
• Assembling promise chains to model complex asynchronous flows
• Using async/await and asynchronous iterators

For over a decade prophets have voiced the contention that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers.

—Gene Amdahl

As Amdhal predicted, the web is a gigantic, distributed, interconnected network, and the language we use must rise to the challenge by providing appropriate abstractions that facilitate programming this ever-evolving and ever-changing web. Programming the web is different from programming ...