Possibly the most common use case in all of JavaScript for async and await is using the browser’s built-in fetch API. Listing 1 declares an async function and uses await within it.

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code.

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout.