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Asynchronous JS can be unwieldy and confusing.  Specifically, callbacks can be unwieldy, especially when you introduce error handling and start chaining asynchronous operations.  So, people frequently turn to something like Python’s Twisted‘s deferreds which provide for explicit error handling and the ability for ‘callbacks’ to return yet another asynchronous operation. In CommonJS-land, there are proposals […]

It’s a story as old as time itself.  You write a unit test.  It works for you.  But the evil spirits in the tinderboxes cause the test to fail.  The trick is knowing that evil spirits are a lot like genies.  When you ask for a wish, genies will try and screw you over by […]