What are Callbacks in JavaScript?
Learn what JavaScript callbacks are, how they work, their different types, how to create them, and how to employ them in your own code.
Tag: asynchronous code
Procedurally Generated Game Terrain with React, PHP, and WebSockets
Chris uses ReactJS, PHP, and Websockets to demonstrate how we can procedurally generate game terrain for our rip-off of Stardew Valley!
Game Development with React and PHP: How Compatible Are They?
Chris bootstraps a basic Stardew-Valley-like game in this game development with PHP post, using an async server, preprocessors, and ReactJS!
Parallel Programming with Pthreads in PHP – the Fundamentals
Thomas explains the most recent version of pthreads targeting PHP 7+ and demonstrates all the new features it brought along. Get started with parallelism!
Writing Async Libraries – Let’s Convert HTML to PDF
Chris goes through the whole process of building a PHP async library for converting HTML to PDF - magical stuff!
Websockets in Your Synchronous Site
Chris introduces Socketize, a "sockets-as-a-service" layer that helps you implement websockets into apps with zero overhead, then adds them to a PHP script!
Asynchronous APIs Using the Fetch API and ES6 Generators
Ravi Kiran demonstrates how to combine powerful new ES6 features (namely generators, Promises and the Fetch API) to create asynchronous APIs in JavaScript.