Chapter 6. Understanding asynchronous flow control methods in JavaScript
This chapter covers
- Understanding callback hell and how to avoid it
- Making Promises and keeping them in JavaScript
- Using asynchronous control flow
- Learning event-based programming
- Using Harmony (ECMAScript 6) generator functions
Chapter 5 taught the importance of building your components in a modular fashion, and you learned a great deal about scoping, hoisting, and closures, all of which are necessary to understand asynchronous JavaScript code effectively. Without a modest understanding of asynchronous development in JavaScript, it becomes harder to write quality code that’s easy to read, refactor, and maintain.
One of the most frequently recurring issues for ...
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