The rise of async JavaScript | Jeremy Fairbank, Fluent Conf 2016

Slides available here: As JavaScript has evolved over the past several years, so have the patterns for handling its asynchronous nature. Through callbacks, Promises, and now async functions, JavaScript has made asynchronous control flow easier to tackle. Jeremy Fairbank dives into the new async functions landing in a future version of JavaScript and investigates various use cases and “gotchas” along the way.