What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators
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What do Tamagotchis — everyone’s favourite digital pets from the 90s — and ES6 generators — pausible functions for async tasks — have in common? Both are really fun to play with. As a recent side project, Jenn built a web-version of a Tamagotchi. But she struggled with one key element: how to handle a series of animations. What do you do when animations need to know that other animations are complete? What do you do when you’ve queued animations but a user event needs to be handled instead? This talk explores where Jenn went wrong (hint: promises) and what worked (hint: generators). You’ll leave this talk with a solid grasp of how to combine promises, generators, and coroutines for async work — whether it’s for a Tamagotchi or your day-to-day work.
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What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators
Jennifer Creighton
Jenn Creighton is the Lead Frontend Engineer @ The Wing and also a conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats, one dog, and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
What do Tamagotchis — everyone’s favourite digital pets from the 90s — and ES6 generators — pausible functions for async tasks — have in common? Both are really fun to play with. As a recent side project, Jenn built a web-version of a Tamagotchi. But she struggled with one key element: how to handle a series of animations. What do you do when animations need to know that other animations are complete? What do you do when you’ve queued animations but a user event needs to be handled instead? This talk explores where Jenn went wrong (hint: promises) and what worked (hint: generators). You’ll leave this talk with a solid grasp of how to combine promises, generators, and coroutines for async work — whether it’s for a Tamagotchi or your day-to-day work.
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- Spreadable JavaScript (SkillsCast recorded in July 2019)
- Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop (in London on 4th - 6th November 2019)
- WebAssembly Deep Dive with Brian Sletten (in London on 21st - 22nd November 2019)
- FullStack NYC 2020 - The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things (in New York on 14th - 15th May 2020)
- FullStack London 2020 - The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things (in London on 24th - 26th June 2020)
- Free Code Camp - October (in London on 29th October 2019)
- Keynote by Ruben Bridgewater on Performance Optimisations and the Possible Savings Doing So (in London on 30th October 2019)
- JavaScript for Idris Developers (SkillsCast recorded in October 2019)
- RS232 Board for the Pi (SkillsCast recorded in September 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators
Jennifer Creighton
Jenn Creighton is the Lead Frontend Engineer @ The Wing and also a conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats, one dog, and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.