Reasoning About Asynchronous JavaScript

By Wes Higbee
This course will help you learn to take advantage of JavaScript's single-threaded nature, as opposed to being caught off guard by it. You'll walk away being able to effortlessly reason about when things execute in JavaScript.
Course info
Rating
(172)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 2, 2016
Duration
2h 5m
Table of contents
Overview
Questions 3m Who This Course Is For 1m How to Use This Course 1m Links to Examples 1m
Reasoning Explicitly About When Code Executes
Intro 1m Single-threaded 2m The Event Loop 1m Non-blocking 9m How to Avoid Blocking 4m Run to Completion 7m Challenge - Run to Completion 4m Cooperative Concurrency 8m Animated Walkthrough of When Code Executes 10m Mentality: Little Programs 8m
Exercises and Examples
Intro 1m Sources of Async 2m Source: User Interactions 5m Source: Timers 5m Timer Delay Gotchas 7m Not Always Async 4m Debugging Assumptions 6m Debugging with Async Call Stacks 3m Source: Disk 2m Nodejs nextTick and setImmediate 7m Web Workers 9m Race Conditions 4m Event Listeners Are Synchronous 6m What's Next? 5m
Description
Course info
Rating
(172)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 2, 2016
Duration
2h 5m
Description

At the core of concurrent programming is a thorough knowledge of JavaScript's single-threaded execution. In Reasoning About Asynchronous JavaScript, you will learn how to reason effortlessly about when things execute in JavaScript. You will learn how to stop writing code defensively to avoid race conditions, how to write code that doesn't lock up the browser, exploit parallelism, and take advantage of JavaScript's single-threaded nature. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of concurrent programming in a single-threaded environment that will help you as you move forward in your knowledge of asynchronous JavaScript.

About the author
Wes Higbee
About the author

Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers.

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