Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
Database Developer OPEN SOURCE Using Async Functions Heres Part 4 in a four part series on asynchronous Node js development So far in this asynchronous Node js series Ive covered Node js style callbacks the Async module and promises In this final part of the series Ill teach you about async functions aka async await To me async functions are the most exciting thing to happen to JavaScript since Ajax because finally you can read JavaScript code in a synchronous manner while it executes asynchronously as it always has ASYNC FUNCTIONS OVERVIEW Async functions are a relatively new feature of JavaScript and not specific to Node js Support for the feature first landed in Node js v76 via an update to the V8 JavaScript engine Because async functions rely heavily on promises I recommend you read the previous article if youre not familiar with them I like to think of async functions as two parts async and await Lets look at each part in turn ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 59 By Dan McGhan
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