Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code

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Cover Table of Contents 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 1. Understanding JavaScript Events Scheduling Events Types of Async Functions Writing Async Functions Handling Async Errors Un-nesting Callbacks What We've Learned 2. Distributing Events PubSub Evented Models Custom jQuery Events What We've Learned 3. Promises and Deferreds 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 4. 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 5. Multithreading with Workers Web Workers Node Workers with cluster What We've Learned 6. Async Script Loading Limitations and Caveats Reintroducing the Tag Programmatic Loading What We've Learned A1. Tools for Taming JavaScript TameJS StratifiedJS Kaffeine Streamline.js Node-Fibers The Future of JavaScript: Generators