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The speaker begins by introducing asynchronous JavaScript as a challenging but crucial concept, outlining the progression from callbacks to promises and finally async/await [-]. He illustrates callbacks with an `addEventListener` example, highlighting how a function is passed as an argument to be executed later []. This pattern is further demonstrated with `fs.readFile`, where an error-first callback is used to handle potential issues during file reading, first checking for an error and then processing the data if successful [-].
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The speaker begins by introducing asynchronous JavaScript as a challenging but crucial concept, outlining the progression from callbacks to promises and finally async/await [-]. He illustrates callbacks with an `addEventListener` example, highlighting how a function is passed as an argument to be executed later []. This pattern is further demonstrated with `fs.readFile`, where an error-first callback is used to handle potential issues during file reading, first checking for an error and then processing the data if successful [-].