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Introduction to a series of episodes delving into the world of promises in JavaScript, covering topics like promise creation, resolution handling, error management, concurrency, and more. The hosts emphasize the significance of promises, contrasting them with callback functions and explaining their role in JavaScript programming.

In this 3-course series, Scott and Wes serve up some JavaScript Promises treats. In part 1, they unravel the concept of promises and delve into common examples of their usage, from creating and waiting on promises, to database queries and user permissions.

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
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02:32 What is a promise?
Promise mdn web docs.
03:27 Common examples of promises.
- 03:45 A fetch call to an API returns a promise.
- 05:54 A database query or Insert command
- 07:18 A request for user permissions.
- 07:37 A wait function.
08:08 Resolve or rejecting promises.
09:33 Creating promises.
- 09:46 New promise.
- 11:09 Promise.withResolvers().
- 11:37 An async function.
14:34 Waiting on a promise.
- 15:09 .then().
- 16:50 Await.
- 17:44 Why use one wait method over the other?