With how accessible internet connections are these days, the explosion of streaming almost feels like a natural progression of the way we consume media. In the case of music, we’ve never experience so much convenience since all you have to do to listen to your favorite album is to launch Spotify, type its name and click play. That said, this convenience comes with important and potentially dangerous pitfalls such as giving Spotify data about what you listen, when you listen and where you listen.

The most common issue I’ve seen beginners face when learning Javascript is its asynchronous nature. Understandably of course, as it’s considerably different from writing fully synchronous code, which is what is usually taught first. My goal with this article is to provide a comprehensible and easily approachable explanation for newcomers to Javascript or asynchronous programming in general. Take the following sample: const add = (a, b) => { return a + b; }; const result = add(20, 10); return result; In it, the interpreter does the following: