--- title: "How to Handle Async Code in JavaScript" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-async-code-in-javascript-akcdscj7n source_url: https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/11/09/how-to-handle-async-code-in-javascript.html type: article source: "AppSignal" published: 2022-11-09T11:55:57.790Z updated: 2022-11-09T11:55:57.694Z tags: ["javascript", "github", "twitter"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 53 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Handle Async Code in JavaScript **[AppSignal](https://daily.dev/sources/appsignal)** · 10 min read · 53 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The easiest way to understand asynchronous code is to realize that the code does not execute sequentially. This can be difficult to comprehend in JavaScript, especially if you come from a programming language that's synchronous or sequential by default, like PHP. In the next section, we will learn about callbacks with asynchronous JavaScript using a fun Github. Here's the output of the above code execution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mestido** · 0 upvotes > Post saved) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#twitter](https://daily.dev/tags/twitter) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-async-code-in-javascript-akcdscj7n)