Are there any atomic javascript operations to deal with Ajax's asynchronous nature?

Question

I am dynamically loading code (functions) from a server and executing it as javascript code then storing it in an array and executing. All these snippets of code must be ex

Answer 1

Javascript is essentially single-threaded so you don't need a mutex. Your fetch could set up flags such that subsequent fetch calls could avoid making ajax calls e.g.:

var beingFetched = {};//map onflight -> callbacks
function fetch(foo){
  if (foo in fooArray){
      //Do Nothing
  } else {
      if (beingFetched.foo) { //note empty array is truthy
          //register a callback
          var callback = function(r){
             //anything you need to do wit the return object r
             //maybe even eval it.
          };
          //the callback would more likely be an argument to fetch itself
          //or you could use a promise API instead so that you can at your will
          //register multiple callbacks - for error, for success etc.
          beingFetched.foo.push(callback); 
      } else {
          beingFetched.foo = [];//truthy
          //Fetch foo via Ajax and execute
          $.ajax("getFoo/"+foo).done(function() {
              _.each(beingFetched.foo, function(cb){
                  cb.apply(cb,arguments);
              });
              delete beingFetched.foo;
          });
      }
  }
}