Making the Most out of Asynchronous JavaScript

Practical patterns for reasoning about asynchronous JavaScript: from promises and events to concurrency, performance, and safe object initialization.

Promises and Events: Some Pitfalls and Workarounds

More often than not, we find that promises and events have fundamental incompatibilities that make them difficult to interleave. Ultimately, can promises and events coexist? In this article, we explore this question and propose a neat solution.

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The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

At the moment, there is no standardized way to write asynchronous constructors in JavaScript. However, this does not mean there aren't any workarounds! In this article, we will discuss the various ways to emulate `async` in `constructor`. Most of them are not-so-ideal, but in the end, I will demonstrate the proper way.

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Best Practices for ES2017 Asynchronous Functions (`async`/`await`)

In the previous article, I discussed the best practices for ES6 promises. Picking up from where we left off, I extend the discussion to ES2017 asynchronous functions, which happen to just be "syntactic sugar" over promises.

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Best Practices for ES6 Promises

ES6 promises are great! Yet... they are still quite painful to deal with. In this article, I share the best practices I have learned over the years that helped me make the most out of asynchronous JavaScript.

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JavaScript Concurrency: Avoiding the Sequential Trap

Idle code is the antithesis of efficiency. In this article, we will look into various ways to reduce a program's idle time during asynchronous operations. From concepts such as concurrency and proper I/O scheduling, this is the beginning of a series that explores the world of asynchronous JavaScript.

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