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# The Power of JavaScript Generators

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 1 min read · 145 upvotes · 9 comments

## Summary

This talk explores how JavaScript generators work, what makes them so powerful, and why you should care. Generators have been around in JavaScript since ES2015, yet they remain largely ignored by many JavaScript devs, who don't see why or how they’d use them.

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**@mrtillman** · 4 upvotes

> starts at 7:00 mark

**@matteosacchetto** · 2 upvotes

> Awesome resource, I will for sure look into it more in depth! Thank you for sharing this 🚀

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> Great, well done articulating it

**@joemaffei** · 1 upvotes

> It would be great if there was an article to read instead of an hour long video to watch.

**@devvsakib** · 1 upvotes

> thank you for this article

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