They are fine for simple uses but not great in more complex situations. Fortunately, modern JavaScript gives us the Promise object and async and await keywords as more flexible solutions.

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 ...

This JavaScript thing might just catch on. The world's most popular programming language is starting to look like a real programming language, with classes, modules, promises and more. There's even a ...