No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don't fully understand the language. As part of the ""You Don't Know JS"" series, this concise yet in-depth guide focuses on new asynchronous features and performance techniques-including Promises, generators, …
JavaScript is arguably the most polarizing and misunderstood programming language in the world. Many have attempted to replace it as the language of the Web, but JavaScript has survived, evolved, and thrived. Why did a language created in such hurry succeed where others failed?
If you're a developer moving to an environments that make heavy use of asynchronous APIs, such as Node, WinRT, or Chrome packaged apps, this book how to make use of Promise constructs. JavaScript routinely supports asynchronous code, setting something up with no expectation of w…