Escape the single-threaded event loop in browsers and on the server. Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. The JavaScript language is one of the ...

The sort of asynchronous function we constructed in the previous chapter is more like simulated async rather than the real thing. It is simply a way of breaking up the execution into small chunks that ...

Even if you can make your animation run fast enough, you still have the problem of the pauses that occur whenever the UI thread has to deal with something else. There are situations when your ...