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Leaving Callback Hell with Promises and ES7 async/await

Cross post from my employer's development blog: http://rootinc.github.io/2016/01/14/callback-hell/

Slides and code from my talk for the Toledo Web Proffessionals on 1/13/2016. It was a quick overview of how Promises in ES6 and async/await in ES7 can allow for much cleaner JavaScript coding.

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