Understanding Async JavaScript: Callbacks, Promises, Async/Await

Understanding Async JavaScript JavaScript is single-threaded, meaning it executes code line by line. Slow operations like fetching data from a backend can freeze your app while the code waits. Asynchronous programming solves this by allowing your code to keep running while waiting for tasks like API calls or file reads. Main async patterns in JavaScript: 1.Callbacks 2.Promises 3.Async / Await In the next post, I’ll explain callbacks with an example and their drawbacks.

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