You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance - Kyle Simpson

This concise yet in-depth guide is part of the "You Don't Know JS" series, focusing on new asynchronous features and performance techniques in JavaScript. It covers Promises, generators, and Web Workers, offering valuable insights for creating sophisticated single-page web applications and escaping callback hell.

"You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance" delves into the trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers tend to avoid, providing essential knowledge to become a true JavaScript master.

With this book, you will:

• Explore old and new JavaScript methods for handling asynchronous programming
• Understand how callbacks let third parties control your program’s execution
• Address the "inversion of control" issue with JavaScript Promises
• Use generators to express async flow in a sequential, synchronous-looking fashion
• Tackle program-level performance with Web Workers, SIMD, and asm.js
• Learn valuable resources and techniques for benchmarking and tuning your expressions and statements

Author: Simpson, Kyle

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Illustration: N

Language: ENG

Title: You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance

Pages: 00296 (Encrypted)

On Sale: 2015-02-23

SKU-13/ISBN: 9781491904220

Category: Computers : Programming Languages - JavaScript

Category: Computers : Web - Web Programming