Async.md

Asynchronous programming

• Theory
  • Event loop: 🖐️ used
  • try..catch: 🖐️ used
  • Non-blocking: 🖐️ used
  • Async I/O: 👂 heard
  • Thread pool: 👂 heard
  • Pattern Reactor
  • CAS operations
  • epoll
  • kqueue
  • Completion ports
  • Event ports
  • libuv: 🎓 known
  • Race conditions: 👂 heard
  • Dead locks
  • Live locks
  • Concurrent programming
  • Parallel programming
  • Actor Model
  • Thread: 👂 heard
  • Process: 👂 heard
• Async contracts
  • Callbacks: 🖐️ used
  • Callback-last-error-first: 🖐️ used
  • Thenable: 🎓 known
  • Promise: 🖐️ used
  • Async/await: 🖐️ used
  • Future: 👂 heard
  • Deferred: 👂 heard
  • Sync generator: 🖐️ used
  • Async Generator: 👂 heard
  • Async Iterator: 🎓 known
  • Event: 🖐️ used
  • Coroutine
  • Goroutine
  • Signal
  • Stream: 🖐️ used
  • Chain of responsibility
  • Middleware
  • Locks
• Async adapters and utils
  • callbackify: 👂 heard
  • promisify: 👂 heard
  • asyncify: 👂 heard
  • Callbacks compose: 🎓 known
  • Async compose
• Async abstractions interfaces
  • EventEmitter: 🖐️ used
  • Observable/Observer
  • Readable: 🖐️ used
  • Writable: 🖐️ used
  • Transform: 🎓 known
  • Async Pool
  • Async Queue
  • Async Collector
  • Semaphore
  • Mutex
  • Spin Lock
• JavaScript & Node.js specific
  • Timers: 🖐️ used
  • setImmediate: 🎓 known
  • nextTick
  • AbortController: 🎓 known
  • AbortSignal: 🎓 known
  • Promise unhandled rejection: 🎓 known
  • Promise double resolve
  • Atomics
  • High resolution clock
  • Callback hell: 🎓 known
  • Promise hell: 🎓 known
  • ref() and unref()
  • Error handling in async code
  • Better stack traces with return await
  • JSON streaming serialization
  • AsyncLocalStorage
  • AsyncResource
• Techniques
  • Async.js library
  • RxJS library
  • Promise.all: 🎓 known
  • Promise.allSettled
  • Promise.race: 🎓 known
  • Promise.any: 🎓 known
  • Web Locks API
  • IPC
  • Channel API
  • Revealing constructor: 🎓 known