11PROMISES AND ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING
One of the most powerful aspects of JavaScript is how easily it handles asynchronous programming. As a language created for the web, JavaScript needed to be able to respond to asynchronous user interactions, such as clicks and key presses, from the beginning. Node.js made asynchronous programming in JavaScript more popular by using callbacks as an alternative to events. But as more programs started using asynchronous programming, events and callbacks weren’t powerful enough to support everything developers wanted to do. Promises are the solution to this problem.
Promises are another option for asynchronous ...
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