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  2. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    In other cases a future and a promise are created together and associated with each other: the future is the value, the promise is the function that sets the value – essentially the return value (future) of an asynchronous function (promise). Setting the value of a future is also called resolving, fulfilling, or binding it.

  3. Async/await - Wikipedia

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    The compiler re-interprets this as resolving the Task it returned earlier, triggering a callback in the method's caller to do something with that length value. A function using async/await can use as many await expressions as it wants, and each will be handled in the same way (though a promise will only be returned to the caller for the first ...

  4. ECMAScript version history - Wikipedia

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    Its features include the Object.values, Object.entries and Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors functions for easy manipulation of Objects, async / await constructions that use generators and promises, and additional features for concurrency and atomics. It also includes String.prototype.padStart(). [35] [6]

  5. Ajax (programming) - Wikipedia

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    HTML and CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The webpage can be modified by JavaScript to dynamically display (and allow the user to interact with) the new information. The built-in XMLHttpRequest object is used to execute Ajax on webpages, allowing websites to load content onto the screen without refreshing the ...

  6. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript (/ ˈ dʒ ɑː v ə s k r ɪ p t / ⓘ), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. [10] Web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine that executes the client code.

  7. Promise problem - Wikipedia

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    In computational complexity theory, a promise problem is a generalization of a decision problem where the input is promised to belong to a particular subset of all possible inputs. [1] Unlike decision problems, the yes instances (the inputs for which an algorithm must return yes ) and no instances do not exhaust the set of all inputs.

  8. ECMAScript - Wikipedia

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    It is best known as a JavaScript standard intended to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different web browsers. [2] It is standardized by Ecma International in the document ECMA-262 . ECMAScript is commonly used for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web , and it is increasingly being used for server-side applications and ...

  9. Unobtrusive JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    Unobtrusive JavaScript is a general approach to the use of client-side JavaScript in web pages so that if JavaScript features are partially or fully absent in a user's web browser, then the user notices as little as possible any lack of the web page's JavaScript functionality. [1]