Contents and Extracts
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Trouble in Paradise
Who Is This Book For?
Resources for Learning JavaScript
Where to Turn for Help?
Running the Code Examples
Code Style in This Book
A Word on altJS
Resources for This Book
Understanding JavaScript Events
Scheduling Events
Types of Async Functions
Writing Async Functions
Handling Async Errors
Un-nesting Callbacks
What We’ve Learned
Distributing Events
PubSub
Evented Models
Custom jQuery Events
What We’ve Learned
Promises and Deferreds excerpt
A Very Brief History of Promises
Making Promises
Passing Data to Callbacks
Progress Notifications
Combining Promises
Binding to the Future with pipe
jQuery vs. Promises/A
Replacing Callbacks with Promises
What We’ve Learned
Flow Control with Async.js
The Async Ordering Problem
Async Collection Methods
Organizing Tasks with Async.js
Dynamic Async Queuing
Minimalist Flow Control with Step
What We’ve Learned
Multithreading with Workers excerpt
Web Workers
Node Workers with cluster
What We’ve Learned
Async Script Loading
Limitations and Caveats
Reintroducing the <script> Tag
Programmatic Loading
What We’ve Learned
Tools for Taming JavaScript
TameJS
StratifiedJS
Kaffeine
Streamline.js
Node-Fibers
The Future of JavaScript: Generators
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