Pragmatic Programmers With the advent of HTML5, front-end MVC, and Node.js, JavaScript is ubiquitous - and still messy. This book will give you a solid foundation for managing async tasks without losing your sanity in a tangle of callbacks. It"s a fast-paced guide to the most essential techniques for dealing with async behavior, including PubSub, evented models, and Promises. With these tricks up your sleeve, you"ll be better prepared to manage the complexity of large web apps and deliver responsive code. With Async JavaScript, you"ll develop a deeper understanding of the JavaScript language. You"ll start with a ground-up primer on the JavaScript event model - key to avoiding many of the most common mistakes JavaScripters make. From there you"ll see tools and design patterns for turning that conceptual understanding into practical code. The concepts in the book are illustrated with runnable examples drawn from both the browser and the Node.js server framework, incorporating complementary...