async function getStarWarsData() { try { const response = await fetch('https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/'); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data ...

The new async and await keywords in JavaScript are probably the best and almost complete solution to the asynchronous programming problem. In JavaScript, however, they are built on top of the Promise ...

Promises are still relatively new and this means that there are asynchronous functions that don't make use of them. This leads on to the need to promisify existing and future code. In this extract ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

I keep hitting a code pattern in javascript that I'm having trouble writing in a readable, non-ugly pattern. (FWIW, I'm just transitioning back to javascript after being away. I might be missing a ...