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 ...

This JavaScript thing might just catch on. The world's most popular programming language is starting to look like a real programming language, with classes, modules, promises and more. There's even a ...

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 ...

Once we coded applications that stood alone or were tightly coupled to specific servers. Now we’re writing applications that are loosely coupled, with app and browser front ends connected to ...

Promises are a way of organizing asynchronous calls that is better than using callbacks. The callbacks are still there, but they come with a degree of organization. Promises are also the basis for the ...