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Web Directions Global Scope '22 session spotlight–Promises and Async/Await From the Ground Up - Web Directions

Web Directions Global Scope ’22 session spotlight–Promises and Async/Await From the Ground Up

John Allsopp

22nd June, 2022

@johnallsopp

Promises and Async/Await From the Ground Up

We all know promises and async/await are the official ways to write async code in JavaScript. But working with promises and async functions can be tricky. In this talk, I’ll walk through promises and async/await from base principles, with an emphasis on effective mental models on topics ranging from “how do promises work?” to “does a given package support promises?”

Valeri Karpov

Valeri Karpov has been the maintainer of Mongoose, the most popular ODM for Node.js and MongoDB, since 2014. His dev shop, MeanIT Software, works on Mongoose and Mastering JS.

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