Asynchronous JavaScript

This is a very concise guide that goes through the fundamentals of async programming with JavaScript. It covers callbacks, promises, and async functions. By the end you should have a good understanding of asynchronous flows and feel comfortable writing clean async code.

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Chapter 1: Introduction focuses on the async model in JavaScript. It explores the key differences between async and synchronous models

Chapter 2: Callbacks describes what callbacks are and how they are used to capture results of async operations

Chapter 3: Promises introduces promises and how they can be used to manage async operations

Chapter 4: Generators goes over generator functions and explains how they can be used for different purposes including async tasks

Chapter 5: Async Await explores the asycn/await abstraction around generators and promises and how they can be used to simplify async flows

Asynchronous JavaScript

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