Async + Await in JavaScript, talk from Wes Bos

Flow Control in JavaScript is hard! Native Promises in JavaScript have helped immensely, but the syntax is still a little callback-y. With Async + Await, we can write synchronous looking code without losing any of the benefits of JavaScript's asynchronous nature.
Wes Bos explores how async + await works, best practices for flow control, and explores several solutions for handling errors.
Filmed at 2017.dotjs.io on December 1st in Paris.
You can follow Wes Bos on Twitter: / wesbos
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[@WesBos]

what a cool guy doing this talk

[@padaricohora9094]

Wes Bos is a great speaker, he makes it so simple and explains it so well

[@andrewoikonomidis8021]

Great to have Wes Bos for a talk!

[@teenytinytoons]

What a beautiful stage. 🌿 Even his slides are aesthetically pleasing.

[@starnsboy]

Great shoutout to Wes Bos for a brilliant and clear explanation

[@TheJokerchocolate]

0:33 a sink, a weight

[@alexnezhynsky9707]

This is the best async await video to this day, I'm not even exaggerating.

[@ChadPjontek]

This is exactly what I needed to learn today! Thank you!

[@bo_ver4628]

Finally, I get it! Thank you, Wes!

[@mrdeurknopp]

One of the best JS teachers

[@mad1083]

Loved the express bit. Thanks!

[@MohamedHamed-oz6nq]

very amazing talk, i loved it so much. thank you

[@kasper369]

I still can't get over the fact that some people are laying in audience

[@SumoCumLoudly]

Its JavaScript

[@AnkurShah_CS]

Very helpful! Thanks! Loved it! :)

[@justkdding]

Thanks WesBos, You really are a boss.

[@DcodeShow]

Awesome! Very well explained.

[@barjosa31blogspot83]

Thank you! Nice speech!

[@ahmedhamed8419]

Thanks a lot wesbos

[@amineabdellahoui5912]

Thanks Wes!

[@SumitKumar-tw4qe]

Starting this video, I had 70% confidence with async-await; after watching it my confidence is 42.6%

[@adarshkotali]

thats because concepts are not clear....watch dev ed callback async await ...for that

[@deki90to]

@@adarshkotali agreed

[@forrestmorrisey]

One video/lesson will never be able to bring 100% of learners to 100% of comprehension.

[@kazimahin9137]

thank you brother you helped me a lot

[@tschleuss]

Very good!

[@pbdivyesh]

Wow wesbos yay! I just realized this was almost 4 months back! Damn I've come so far with JS already

[@bishnubasyal5861]

This is real Gem.

[@goreguts666]

gotta love that Cobalt2

[@thirstypooch]

Very nice

[@vladimir_dev]

Wes is cool! :)

[@DavidS-es8cw]

Amazing talk, I really like async / await but the error handling seems too ugly to me so generally I prefer promises

[@GodOfMacro]

Here's a tip: use .catch with await :) best of both

[@vintagerealityvr]

Try catch blocks 👍

[@kenichimori8533]

Best proceeding

[@qualifiedCaptain]

brilliant

[@Mongkon]

Thanks

[@omermindivanli2981]

great

[@MuhammadArnaldo]

how to get the slides? love it

[@NarottamDas]

in the beginning, you said JavaScript does not wait, is it JavaScript or Node Js is non-blocking nature?

[@arfan8544]

when I see this name [Wes Bos], I am like I need to watch the video 🔥🔥🤣🤣

[@patrasculucian2403]

Wicked

[@ogunkayodeoluwaseun9348]

async await gives us synchronous looking code without the downside of writing synchronous code (call back hell)

[@cyb3r1]

There's a chick in the crowd about to say "can you keep it down cause I'm trying to sleep here?"

[@SmartWizzard]

6:18 that's the way to enjoy coding :) -- Chick

[@kongbruce3752]

The fonts of the code is awesome,what kind of the font is ,who knows?

[@tomijovanoski18]

Kong Bruce I guess it’s Fira Mono

[@PareshRadadiya22]

It's Operator Mono

[@kongbruce3752]

@@PareshRadadiya22Cool, thanks

[@andrejbartko]

Wes is brilliant async/await not so much...

[@domaincontroller]

05:07 aysync await

[@vado4003]

A S I N K

[@mdtusharraazamaan2622]

lol

[@securityintech]

Why they are sleeping?

[@naresh2232463]

14:12 someone is sleeping

[@shashiverma3152]

the are cool

[@continental_drift]

The elephant in the room is that when you have to wait for data before doing some processing then it doesn't matter how "performant" your code is.

[@elg281]

Sup

[@streamdungeon5166]

that intro could probably pop a speaker... it is horrible sound :(

[@BobbyBundlez]

GOTTA LOVE THAT BASS BRO. POP SOME MOLLY BEFORE WATCHING ANY JS TUTORIALS... WE ALL KNOW THIS IS THE FIRST RULE TO GOOD PROGRAMMING

[@streamdungeon5166]

@@BobbyBundlez lmao!

[@probinebusiness4367]

This guy cannot really code, but can read