Using callback-passing for asynchronous actions does not compose well and creates complex flows of passing callbacks around. The JavaScript community has produced several libraries to cope with this.

I need to make a function call with multiple arguments, let's say 5 arguments. I have 3, but 2 of them need to be computed by functions only available with javascript async APIs, sometimes through ...

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While JavaScript itself is single-threaded, many JavaScript functions have supported asynchronous processing through callbacks (the variations on the jQuery AJAX function are just the most obvious ...

What is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)? AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique aimed at creating better and faster interactive web apps by combining several programming tools, ...