Asynchronous programming in JavaScript leverages features like callbacks, promises and async/await to sidestep this issue by allowing other code to run in the meantime.

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I’ve previously covered the basics of JavaScript promises and how to use the async/await keywords to simplify your existing asynchronous code.

Say that you're developing an tool that let's users customize it via JavaScript. Some of the common functions that will be called from the scripts are fundamentally asynchronous - they ultimately ...