Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await in JavaScript

How To Write Asynchronous JavaScript

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JavaScript is single-threaded, which means that only one thing can happen at a time. Synchronous code is executed from top to bottom in the order that the code is written. Synchronous code is also “blocking” — each line of code waits for the previous line of code to be executed before it runs.