As front-end engineers, we frequently deal with asynchronous data, such as API responses, streams, lazy-loaded content, and more. JavaScript has long provided tools for managing async logic, but working with async iterables has often required verbose or manual handling. Enter Array.fromAsync(), a modern addition to JavaScript that simplifies the process...

Whether you’re building UI components, calling APIs, or writing some utility functions, it’s quite common to deal with optional function arguments. Traditionally, you’d fall back on if statements or logical ORs to assign default values. But let’s be honest, that can lead to subtle bugs. How often have you written...

Writing asynchronous code in JavaScript used to come with a limitation: the await keyword could only be used inside an async function. That changed when ES2022 introduced top-level await, a modern ES module feature that enables new patterns for asynchronous code at the module level. What’s top-level await? Traditionally await...