async function getStarWarsData() { try { const response = await fetch('https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/'); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

Understanding asynchronous programming is akin to unlocking a powerful toolset for building efficient and responsive web applications. Asynchronous programming is essential to modern JavaScript ...

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 ...

Microsoft continues to churn out updates to its experimental Blazor technology for running C# code on the Web, with the latest boosting JavaScript interoperability. Specifically, it easier handles ...

While the Cache API is primarily of use in a ServiceWorker, it is also generally available to JavaScript code. You can use it to store and retrieve resources and it is largely a replacement for the ...

The Qt framework, with its deeply embedded event system and signal-slot mechanism, has always supported developers in asynchronous programming. The previous part of our series introduced these ...

Arjan van de Ven's fast boot project will be familiar to most LWN readers by now. Most of Arjan's work has not yet found its way into the mainline, though, so most of us still have to wait for our ...