“I will finish later!”
Functions running in parallel with other functions are called asynchronous
A good example is JavaScript setTimeout()
Asynchronous JavaScript
The examples used in the previous chapter, was very simplified.
The purpose of the examples was to demonstrate the syntax of callback functions :
Example
function myDisplayer(something) {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = something;
}
function myCalculator(num1, num2, myCallback) {
let sum = num1 + num2;
myCallback(sum);
}
myCalculator(5, 5, myDisplayer);
In the example above, myDisplayer
is the name of a function. Continue reading Asynchronous JavaScript