When building web pages or apps, you will often encounter the two terms async and await in JavaScript. These are terms frequently used in processes that fetch data from an API.In short, async/await is ...

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code. Promises are a central mechanism for ...

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 ...

If you’re returning information from a then or catch handler, it will always be wrapped in a promise, if it isn’t a promise already. So, you never need to write code like this: If you are unsure if ...

There is still free training to be had from Udacity and a recent addition to the catalog covers JavaScript Promises and helps front-end web developers cope with dealing with asynchronous events and ...