--- title: "#355: Await and Async Explained" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 355 published_at: "2017-10-06" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/355" --- #355: Await and Async Explained This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/355) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 355 — October 6, 2017[Await and Async Explained with Diagrams and Examples](http://nikgrozev.com/2017/10/01/async-await/)A tutorial that explains the new await/async features in ES2016 for more easily working with asynchronous functions. Nikolay Grozev [The Road to Ember 3.0](https://emberjs.com/blog/2017/10/03/the-road-to-ember-3-0.html)The Ember.js core team is busy at work on the latest version of Ember, due next year, and they explan what they’re working on here. 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