Async JavaScript (For Carrie Mitchell) by Burnham, Trevor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Async JavaScript Table of Contents Early Praise for Async JavaScript 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

Chapter 1: Understanding JavaScript Events

1.1 Scheduling Events 1.2 Types of Async Functions 1.3 Writing Async Functions 1.4 Handling Async Errors 1.5 Un-nesting Callbacks 1.6 What We’ve Learned

Chapter 2: Distributing Events

2.1 PubSub 2.2 Evented Models 2.3 Custom jQuery Events 2.4 What We’ve Learned

Chapter 3: Promises and Deferreds

3.1 A Very Brief History of Promises 3.2 Making Promises 3.3 Passing Data to Callbacks 3.4 Progress Notifications 3.5 Combining Promises 3.6 Binding to the Future with pipe 3.7 jQuery vs. Promises/A 3.8 Replacing Callbacks with Promises 3.9 What We’ve Learned

Chapter 4: Flow Control with Async.js

4.1 The Async Ordering Problem 4.2 Async Collection Methods 4.3 Organizing Tasks with Async.js 4.4 Dynamic Async Queuing 4.5 Minimalist Flow Control with Step 4.6 What We’ve Learned

Chapter 5: Multithreading with Workers

5.1 Web Workers 5.2 Node Workers with cluster 5.3 What We’ve Learned

Chapter 6: Async Script Loading

6.1 Limitations and Caveats 6.2 Reintroducing the < script > Tag 6.3 Programmatic Loading 6.4 What We’ve Learned

Appendix 1: Tools for Taming JavaScript

A1.1 TameJS A1.2 StratifiedJS A1.3 Kaffeine A1.4 Streamline.js A1.5 Node-Fibers A1.6 The Future of JavaScript: Generators