I keep hitting a code pattern in javascript that I'm having trouble writing in a readable, non-ugly pattern. (FWIW, I'm just transitioning back to javascript after being away. I might be missing a ...

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 ...

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Say that you're developing an tool that let's users customize it via JavaScript. Some of the common functions that will be called from the scripts are fundamentally asynchronous - they ultimately are ...