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If you are a software engineer who wants to learn more interesting facts about JavaScript to make your life easier, this book is for you. A simple and engaging language with narrations and code examples makes this book easy to understand and apply its practices. This book starts with an introduction to JavaScript promises and how it evolved over time. You will then learn the JavaScript asynchronous model and how JavaScript handles asynchronous programming. Next, you will learn about the promises paradigm and its advantages. Finally, this book will show you how to implement promises on platforms such as WinRT, jQuery, and Node.js, which are used in project development.

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