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title: "Asynchronous JavaScript function"
description: "Asynchronous JavaScript function"
author: "Anonymous User"
published: 2021-07-19
updated: 2021-07-19
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156513/asynchronous-javascript-function
category: "javascript"
tags: ["javascript"]
reading_time: 1 minute
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# Asynchronous JavaScript function
What is a [simple](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1469/5-simple-ways-to-stay-fit-amp-healthy) example of an [asynchronous JavaScript](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337707/explaining-the-promise-in-javascript-and-different-status) [function](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13001/multi-statement-table-valued-user-defined-function-in-sql-server)?
## Replies
### Reply by Ethan Karla
[JavaScript](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/874/how-to-create-watermark-text-for-textbox-by-using-javascript) itself is synchronous and single-threaded. You cannot write an [asynchronous](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/178/synchronous-and-asynchronous-command-execution-in-c-sharp-dot-net) function; plain JS has no timing API. There will be no side-effects from parallel threads.\
What you can do is use some APIs provided by your environment (Node.js, Webbrowser) that allow you to schedule asynchronous tasks - using timeouts, ajax, FileAPI, requestAnimationFrame, nextTick, WebWorkers, DOM events, whatever. An example using setTimeout (provided by the HTML Timing API):
```
Asynchronous JavaScript
Asynchronous JavaScript
```
Hope this information has cleared your confusion.\
Happy Coding!
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