Complete introduction to async functions and ES6 modules in Node.js
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9 min readApr 23, 2018
Since 2015 the JavaScript language has radically changed. A pair of features stand out as having the potential to revolutionize JavaScript programming: async/await functions, and the ES6 module format. While most of the new JavaScript features are simple syntactic sugar, these two are huge.
- Async functions offer us a way out of the pits of callback…