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JavaScript Promises and Async Programming

Asynchronous programming is often intimidating, it's not how we normally consider writing code. This course shows how promises and async/await can help simplify async programming.

Intermediate
1h 21m
(846)

Created by Nate Taylor

Last Updated Oct 10, 2025

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JavaScript Promises and Async Programming

Asynchronous programming is often intimidating, it's not how we normally consider writing code. This course shows how promises and async/await can help simplify async programming.

Intermediate
1h 21m
(846)

Created by Nate Taylor

Last Updated Oct 10, 2025

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Asynchronous programming is often new and confusing when first learning JavaScript. In this course, JavaScript Promises and Async Programming, you’ll gain the ability to handle async programming in JavaScript. First, you’ll explore consuming promises. Next, you’ll discover creating your own promises. Finally, you’ll learn how to use async/await to handle asynchronous programming. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of JavaScript promises needed to handle asynchronous code.

JavaScript Promises and Async Programming
Intermediate
1h 21m
(846)
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Nate Taylor - Pluralsight course - JavaScript Promises and Async Programming
Nate Taylor
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Nate's first program was written in QBasic on an 8086 clone his dad built. Since then he's written applications in C++, .NET, and Node.js.

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