matthewlawson / promise-and-generator-experiments

A very short experiment with examples for using promises and their equivalent generator style

Various asynchronous techniques in javascript.

Techniques covered

• Promises
• Callbacks
• Generator functions (using co library)
• EventEmitter

Installing

Install Dependencies

$ npm install

Runing the examples

Promises

$  npm run promise

Callbacks

$  npm run callback

Generators

$  npm run generator

Generators

$  npm run event-emitter

3rd Party libraries

co

Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nice-ish way.