Get comfortable with the latest evolutions of the JavaScript language and new ES6 features. This course provides the opportunity to follow along with Kyle Simpson, so you can gain new programming skills. Learn to use work with callbacks, handle inversion of control, and use thunks. Find out how to leverage promises—including native promises and a promise API—and how to work with abstractions, sequences, and gates. See how to use generators, observables, CSP, and more.

Note: This course was created by Frontend Masters. It was originally released on 3/29/2016. We’re pleased to host this training in our library.

Topics include:

  • Parallel and asynchronous code
  • Working with callbacks
  • Using thunks
  • Exploring promise flow control
  • Abstractions, sequences, and gates
  • Generators
  • Messaging
  • Observables, events, and sequences
  • CSP
  • Blocking channels

Table of Content

1. Parallel vs. Async

Course introduction

Single threaded JavaScript

Concurrency

2. Callback

Callback misery

Exercise 1

Exercise 1: Solution

Callback problems: Inversion of control

Callback problems: Not reasonable

Non fixes

3. Thunks

Synchronous and asynchronous thunks

Exercise 2

Exercise 2 solution

Thunks and closure

4. Promises

  • Use the vertical chaining, avoid the Promise callback 
    Promise.reject()
.catch(function(){
// to do when fail
})

    Native promises

Promise api

Promise flow control

Exercise 3

Exercise 3 solution

Exercise 3 questions, part 1

Exercise 3 questions, part 2

Exercise 4

Exercise 4 solution

Abstractions

Sequences and gates

Exercise 5 and 6

Exercise 5: Solution

Exercise 6: Solution

5. Generators

Generator example

Messaging

Messaging questions

Async generators

Promises and generators

Exercise 7

Exercise 7: Solution

Quiz

6. Observables

Events and promises

Observables

Reactive sequences

Exercise 8

Exercise 8: Solution, part 1

Exercise 8: Solution, part 2

7. CSP

Concurrency and channels

Blocking channels

Event channels

Exercise 9

Exercise 9: Solution

Recap

Exercise 10

Wrap-up