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JavaScript Concurrency

By : Adam Boduch
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JavaScript Concurrency

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Concurrent programming may sound abstract and complex, but it helps to deliver a better user experience. With single threaded JavaScript, applications lack dynamism. This means that when JavaScript code is running, nothing else can happen. The DOM can’t update, which means the UI freezes. In a world where users expect speed and responsiveness – in all senses of the word – this is something no developer can afford. Fortunately, JavaScript has evolved to adopt concurrent capabilities – one of the reasons why it is still at the forefront of modern web development. This book helps you dive into concurrent JavaScript, and demonstrates how to apply its core principles and key techniques and tools to a range of complex development challenges. Built around the three core principles of concurrency – parallelism, synchronization, and conservation – you’ll learn everything you need to unlock a more efficient and dynamic JavaScript, to lay the foundations of even better user experiences. Throughout the book you’ll learn how to put these principles into action by using a range of development approaches. Covering everything from JavaScript promises, web workers, generators and functional programming techniques, everything you learn will have a real impact on the performance of your applications. You’ll also learn how to move between client and server, for a more frictionless and fully realized approach to development. With further guidance on concurrent programming with Node.js, JavaScript Concurrency is committed to making you a better web developer. The best developers know that great design is about more than the UI – with concurrency, you can be confident every your project will be expertly designed to guarantee its dynamism and power.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript Concurrency
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Additions and improvements


And that's the extent of coverage we'll have on the development of our chat application. We didn't walk through every bit of code, but this is why the code is made available as a companion to this book to look through it in it's entirety. The focus of the preceding sections has been through the lens of writing concurrent JavaScript code. We didn't utilize every last example from the chapters before this one, which would defeat the whole purpose of concurrency to fix issues that lead to a suboptimal user experience.

The focus of the chat application example was the facilitation of concurrency. This means making it possible to implement concurrent code when there's a need to do so as opposed to the implementing concurrent code for the sake of it. The latter doesn't make our application any better than it is right now, nor does it leave us in a better position to fix concurrency issues that happen later on.

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