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Async ↔ of process to occur in parallel, independently

aka Asynchronous, Asynchronicity

Non-Blocking​

of code to not pause execution for rest of Code sequence

async​

JS Keyword to prepend function to allow Asynchronous Code

AJAX​

(process) to Asynchronous Data Fetch from Server (via clunky legacy XHR methods)

Asynchronous Model​

(model) to handle multiple things happen Concurrently

Asynchronous Code​

Non-Blocking Code to defer execute, wait in Callback Queue & move to Call Stack once background task Settled

image loading is usually async

const img = document.querySelector(".dog");
img.src = "dog.jpg"

Setting image source attribute loads image in background

References​

  1. indexedDB ↔ Web API indexed database built into Browser with Async access

  2. [Non-Blocking](non-blocking) ↔ Node API tends to be Async by default

  3. AMD Module ↔ Async Module Definition format used in Browser

  4. experiement_use ↔ React API to allow Async Data Fetch inside Server Component

  5. Data Fetch ↔ (process) to Async GET data from Server

  6. Webhook ↔ Listener for Async web event, to push real-time updates to App/Backend

  7. Render Phase ↔ (process) to Async check all elements, one by one, collect changes

  8. Coroutine ↔ (process) to write/run Async Process

  9. AJAX ↔ (process) to Asynchronous Data Fetch from Server (via clunky legacy XHR methods)