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jQuery Design Patterns

You're reading from   jQuery Design Patterns Write Elegant, Structured and Efficient jQuery

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888687
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thodoris Greasidis Thodoris Greasidis
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Refresher on jQuery and the Composite Pattern FREE CHAPTER 2. The Observer Pattern 3. The Publish/Subscribe Pattern 4. Divide and Conquer with the Module Pattern 5. The Facade Pattern 6. The Builder and Factory Patterns 7. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns 8. Mock Object Pattern 9. Client-side Templating 10. Plugin and Widget Development Patterns 11. Optimization Patterns Index

Introducing the concept of Promises


Promises, also known as Futures, are described by Computer Science as specialized objects that are used for synchronization of asynchronous, concurrent, or parallel procedures. They are also used as proxies to propagate the result of a task when its generation completes. This way, a Promise object is like a contract where an operation will eventually complete its execution, and anyone having a reference to this contract can declare their interest to be notified about the result.

Since they were introduced to JavaScript developers, as part of several libraries, they revolutionized the way we use asynchronous functions and compose them in implementation with complex synchronization schemes. This way, web developers can create more flexible, scalable, and readable implementations, making method invocations with callbacks look like a primitive pattern and effectively eliminating the Callback Hell situations.

One of the key concepts of Promises is that asynchronous...

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