JavaScript’s async and await functions make for readable and maintainable asynchronous code. Just watch out for their downsides.

Callbacks work fine for handling asynchronous code in JavaScript, but promises and the async and await keywords are cleaner and more flexible.

A couple of months ago, I did a column on using the new asynchronous methods that come with Entity Framwork (EF) 6.1. I got taken to task by my readers for creating overly complex solutions, who ...

You don't need to write ugly code to synchronize your AJAX calls. Instead, you can leverage await/async and the JQueryXHR object to simplify the code around your AJAX calls while still getting the ...