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Dealing with asynchrony has been the an issue in JavaScript from the beginning, as the fundamental model is event driven.
There are a number of mechanisms for coordinating work, including mutexes (see Atomics.wait()), but for >99% of code, Promises are a better option.
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Dealing with asynchrony has been the an issue in JavaScript from the beginning, as the fundamental model is event driven.
There are a number of mechanisms for coordinating work, including mutexes (see Atomics.wait()), but for >99% of code, Promises are a better option.