Re:ES6 Overview in Bullet Points
by NikolaeVarius on Friday November 27, 2015 @03:23PM
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What is the advantage of using generators versus promises?
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http://stackoverflow.com/a/28032438 gives a great overview to the pros and cons of both approaches.
In this case, Koa uses generators and promises together to emulate the behavior of async/await style concurrency. You can see how Babel 5.x transforms ES7 async/await into generators and promises at https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/v5.8.34/packages/babel/s...