AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with |
| 0:07.0 | JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills! |
| 0:12.0 | Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development |
| 0:16.0 | treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott! |
| 0:22.0 | Tiltoro Logo! Tolinsky! Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be |
| 0:32.0 | talking about Async local storage in the Async context API in JavaScript. This is a |
| 0:40.0 | server-side JavaScript thing that allows you to basically have a context amongst your |
| 0:48.0 | player call stack for any given piece of information that you want to share in that |
| 0:53.0 | regard. So my name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver. And with me, |
| 0:58.0 | as always, is Wes! Boss! Hey! I'm excited to talk about it. I have done a |
| 1:05.0 | little tick-tock on it a couple of weeks ago and then I talked about it in my react |
| 1:10.0 | to thon talk, which was on like next gen JavaScript frameworks. Async local |
| 1:17.0 | storage is pretty cool. So we're going to kind of run through what it is and why |
| 1:21.0 | you might need it. Should we get on into it? We should. And I will be taking the role |
| 1:26.0 | of somebody who has not used it. I generally know what it is. But I will be trying to |
| 1:30.0 | ask you some questions. So if my questions seem dumb or if they seem like |
| 1:36.0 | off-based, try to steer me in that direction because I'm interested in this stuff. And I |
| 1:40.0 | kind of have an idea of when you would use it. But I want to really get the full picture |
| 1:44.0 | here. So Async local storage, my understanding is that this is a new API within |
| 1:50.0 | JavaScript inside of nodes specifically as well as what these other run times, |
| 1:57.0 | other JavaScript run times. When did this drop in node and is it like are all these |
| 2:03.0 | JavaScript run times aligned on this? So this dropped in node 13. So it meaning |
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