Understanding Async in Javascript
by Hao Luo
Sat, Apr 22, 2017
Room:
Garden Room
Time:
9:15
Javascript traditionally relied on callback functions to handle asynchronous processes. As your Javascript application grows, you would encounter "Callback Hell", which makes your code unreadable and error-prone. There are now several ways to combat callback hell, and make your application development more enjoyable.
The presentation will quickly go over shortcomings of callback functions, an overview of ES2015 promises, and generators, and how those two paradigms are related to the new ES2016 feature async/await.
About the Author
I am a developer living in Chicago. I work for Microsoft as a technical evangelist. I'm also getting married in July :)