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Sridhar Rao Chivukula
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Sridhar Rao Chivukula is a technical lead at Mindtree Ltd and is based out of New York City. He brings with him more than a decade of rich hands-on experience in all aspects of frontend engineering. He has worked with leading companies such as Oracle, Tech Mahindra, and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology. He is the author of the books Expert Angular and PHP and Web 2.0 Application Interfaces, published by Packt.
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Creating an asynchronous service

We just created a service called MovieService that synchronously calls the getMovies() method to retrieve the collection of movies. As we are consuming an external source, such as a web API, to retrieve the collection of movies, our application has to wait until the server responds with the list of movies, as the getMovies function is synchronous.

So we need to implement an asynchronous mechanism to retrieve the collection of movies. In such way, we can avoid making our application wait until the web API responds with the collection of movies. We can achieve this by using promises.

What is a Promise?

A Promise is a sincere assurance that an action will be performed. It calls back a function...

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Sridhar Rao Chivukula

Sridhar Rao Chivukula is a technical lead at Mindtree Ltd and is based out of New York City. He brings with him more than a decade of rich hands-on experience in all aspects of frontend engineering. He has worked with leading companies such as Oracle, Tech Mahindra, and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology. He is the author of the books Expert Angular and PHP and Web 2.0 Application Interfaces, published by Packt.
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