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Managing asynchronous actions in a code base is one of the hard problems in programming. Since the beginning, we’ve done this in JavaScript with callbacks (well for a long time we didn’t much care about asynchronous programming at all!)

But this approach is unwieldy, particularly as our application logic gets more complex, and so recent innovations in the JavaScript language have attempted to address this.

It’s an area of innovation that is ongoing, and not without some controversy, and it’s also something we’ve covered in multiple sessions at our conferences the last few years (and I fully expect to for some time to come)

Recently, we posted Domenic Denicola’s keynote from last year’s Code on the present and future of asynchronous JavaScript, but for this week’s super concentrated dose of Web goodness, we have James Hunter diving more deeply into some specific asynchronous features of ES6, including generators, promises and iterables.

In 20 minutes you’ll get a much clearer understanding of one of JavaScripts most interesting aspects. So what are you waiting for?

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