wesbos

// 🔥 Node 7.6 has async/await! Here is a quick run down on how async/await works

const axios = require('axios'); // promised based requests - like fetch()

function getCoffee() {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve('☕'), 2000); // it takes 2 seconds to make coffee
  });
}

andrewxhill

On chatting to people

Chat is not the same as conversation. When you tag someone using the "@" or if you send them a direct message, you may be directly forcing them to change their focus to your problem. While this is good for you, it can be bad for a healthy and productive community. Here are a couple of rules to abide.

• Only "@" tag people's names in the following cases.
  • Your comment is urgent/time-sensitive and you need the help of the "@" target. What is urgent? You are running a production application with 100s of users facing a broken API, it's urgent. You are experimenting or taking part in a competition and want an answer quickly, it's not urgent.
  • Your comment has grown stale and you still need an answer that the "@" target can provide. What is stale? In most cases, more than 2 days seems reasonable or if it's a weekend, 3 or more.
  • You comment is in a channel or thread where the "@" target is not present but you need them aware.
• Abide by the "no hello" rule at all times. Provide