Introduction
You’ll learn about the topics this chapter contains, which include using promises, async/await, and storing data on the browser.
We'll cover the following...
In the 19th century, an international team of engineers embarked on one of the greatest engineering challenges of their day: laying a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. The project took several failed attempts and plenty of money and hours before it succeeded. In the end, you could send a message from Europe to the United States in an impressive 17 hours—much faster than the nearly two-week boat trip it used to take.
Fast communication can mean ...