Welcome to the final entry of my Practical Promises series! Today, we’re going to learn about the new async and await keywords that are coming as part of ES2017. [more] If you are just joining us, here is what you missed: In part 1, we talked about what promises are and what they can be…
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Month: <span>May 2017</span>
Practical Promises in JavaScript – Finally
Welcome to yet another entry in my Practical Promises series! We’re nearing the end, but I overlooked one important, and useful, capability of several promise libraries, which is what we’ll talk about today! [more] For Those Just Tuning In… If you are just joining us, here is what you have missed so far: In part…
Slides and Code From CodeStock 2017
CodeStock 2017 was awesome! I learned new things, met new people, and had a fantastic time. I’m already looking forward to next year! It’s a bit late, but here’s the content from my talks. Building Mobile Apps with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Your web development skills can be used to build more than…
Practical Promises in JavaScript – Order Matters
Welcome to another entry in my Practical Promises series! I know I said the next post would be the last, and we would talk about async/await, but I changed my mind! Instead, today, we’ll revisit the fundamentals to show just how important it is to call things in the right order. [more] If you are…
Practical Promises in JavaScript – Leveraging Promise Chaining to Achieve Encapsulation
Welcome to part 5 of my Practical Promises series! Today, we’re going to use what we’ve learned to build a better client-side API for a web API. [more] If you are just joining us, here is what you missed: In part 1, we talked about what promises are and what they can be used for….