Using async.js (http://eligrey.com/blog/post/pausing-javascript-with-async-js http://eligrey.com/blog/post/pausing-javascript-with-async-j...), you can do away

Using async.js (http://eligrey.com/blog/post/pausing-javascript-with-async-js http://eligrey.com/blog/post/pausing-javascript-with-async-j...), you can do away with callbacks and still have asynchronous code by using the yield statement. The following is an example (taken from my blog post) of asynchronous code using async.js: yield to.request("/feedback", "POST", ( yield to.prompt("What are your impressions of async.js?") )); yield to.inform("Thanks for your feedback!"); // do more stuff here The equivalent code with callbacks is as follows: async.prompt( ["What are your impressions of async.js?"], function (response) { async.request( ["feedback", "POST", response], function () { async.inform( ["Thanks for your feedback!"], function () { // do more stuff here } ); } ); } ); It makes it very easy to handle DOM events, as demonstrated below. var clickEvent = yield myButton.next("click"); Full disclosure: I wrote async.js.