Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Trouble in Paradise |
| Who Is This Book For? |
| Resources for Learning JavaScript |
| Where to Turn for Help? |
| Running the Code Examples |
| Code Style in This Book |
| A Word on altJS |
| Resources for This Book |
| 1. | Understanding JavaScript Events |
| Scheduling Events |
| Types of Async Functions |
| Writing Async Functions |
| Handling Async Errors |
| Un-nesting Callbacks |
| What We’ve Learned |
| 2. | Distributing Events |
| PubSub |
| Evented Models |
| Custom jQuery Events |
| What We’ve Learned |
| 3. | Promises and Deferreds |
| A Very Brief History of Promises |
| Making Promises |
| Passing Data to Callbacks |
| Progress Notifications |
| Combining Promises |
| Binding to the Future with pipe |
| jQuery vs. Promises/A |
| Replacing Callbacks with Promises |
| What We’ve Learned |
| 4. | Flow Control with Async.js |
| The Async Ordering Problem |
| Async Collection Methods |
| Organizing Tasks with Async.js |
| Dynamic Async Queuing |
| Minimalist Flow Control with Step |
| What We’ve Learned |
| 5. | Multithreading with Workers |
| Web Workers |
| Node Workers with cluster |
| What We’ve Learned |
| 6. | Async Script Loading |
| Limitations and Caveats |
| Reintroducing the <script> Tag |
| Programmatic Loading |
| What We’ve Learned |
| A1. | Tools for Taming JavaScript |
| TameJS |
| StratifiedJS |
| Kaffeine |
| Streamline.js |
| Node-Fibers |
| The Future of JavaScript: Generators |
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