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What determines which Javascript functions are blocking vs non-blocking?
I have been doing web-based Javascript (vanilla JS, jQuery, Backbone, etc.) for a few years now, and recently I've been doing some work with Node.js. It took me a while to get the hang of "non-...
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How can NodeJS be "non-blocking"?
I'm learning NodeJS and just wanted to clarify something. In several introductory tutorials and books so far, very early on they've described Node's "non-blocking" architecture - or rather that it's ...
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Handling multiple asynchronous events - Wait for pending offers to process on new offer?
I have a programming problem, that I don't know how to solve. And while I have provided a sample of my code, I am interested in a conceptual answer on how to resolve this problem.
On a tradeOffers ...
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If callback function, promises and async/await patterns all can be used to achieve asynchronous behaviour then why don't we stick to one?
As far as I have seen then async/await, callbacks and promises are and can only be used to achieve asynchronous programming. Correct?
So my questions are:
1) Is it correct that the former three is ...
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