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

When we first began implementing Promises there was a big problem. It was essential to provide functions so that the code that was using the Promise to signal when it was finished could change the ...

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 ...