At the heart of JavaScript’s asynchronous connection-handling are “promises,” which provide a new way of scheduling how your code will work with JavaScript APIs and functions.

Promises make asynchronous processing simple, consistent and easy to use. And, with TypeScript and Promises.TypeScript providing support for generic Promises, you get both type safety and IntelliSense ...

In a twist of irony, a cancelable promises capability has been cancelled as a planned addition to JavaScript itself. The proposal had been championed by Google’s Dominic Denicola but had ...