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February 4, 2017

The Promise of a Burger Party

Saturday, February 04, 2017 Teklinks

Two weeks ago, I was in a conversation about how I might implement a feature in JavaScript. It needed to be asynchronous to access external data, I said "well, let's use fetch()...so in code... umm..." while I paused to remember fetch API, the person I was talking to said, "It returns a promise". My brain froze, and I said: "I honestly don't know what you mean..."

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