The saga of async JavaScript: Thunks

• redux-thunk

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  Thunk middleware for Redux

  

For real though, I wish I knew why somebody came out with this name. But jokes aside, thunks are the thing that at some point made me wondering how I had got so far with JavaScript without even knowing how powerful it can be. From a synchronous perspective, thunk is essentially a function that is ready to give you some value back and requires no additional input. As simple as that. Many of you working with React probably know an awesome and plain simple library called redux-thunk which as name suggests is based on thunks. But more on that later. For now let's take a look at a simple example of a synchronous thunk:

• SurveyJS

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