Rethinking Asynchronous JavaScript

• Understand the core concepts of asynchronous programming in JavaScript, including callbacks, promises, generators, and observables.
• Learn to identify and solve common async challenges like callback hell and inversion of control.
• Explore and implement various async patterns and understand their pros and cons.
• Master modern asynchronous techniques like async generators, reactive sequences, and Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
• Gain practical experience by reimplementing the same task with different async patterns to compare their effectiveness.

This course, led by Kyle Simpson, dives deep into asynchronous JavaScript, rethinking how to manage asynchrony effectively. You’ll explore various async patterns, starting from the basics and progressing to advanced concepts like promises, generators, observables, and CSP. The course emphasizes hands-on learning by solving the same problem with different async techniques, giving you a concrete understanding of each pattern's strengths and weaknesses.

• JavaScript developers who want to deepen their understanding of asynchronous programming.
• Developers struggling with async challenges like callback hell and seeking better patterns for handling asynchrony.
• Frontend and backend developers looking to modernize their async code using the latest JavaScript features.

• Intermediate knowledge of JavaScript.
• Familiarity with basic asynchronous concepts, such as callbacks and promises.

Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript
Understand JavaScript's single-threaded nature and learn the basics of concurrency and parallelism.

Callbacks and Thunks
Explore the limitations of callbacks and how thunks can improve async flow control by using closure.

Promises and Async Generators
Dive into promises, their flow control benefits, and how they solve issues like inversion of control. Learn how to combine promises with generators for better async management.

Advanced Async Patterns
Discover observables for handling event streams and Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) for modeling concurrency with channels.

Hands-on Exercises
Reimplement the same problem using different async patterns to solidify your understanding and compare their effectiveness.