e>m.request</code></a></p>
<p>Asynchronous APIs are those which typically take a long time to run, and therefore would take too long to return a value using the <code>return</code> statement of a function. Instead, they do their work in the background, allowing other JavaScript code to run in the meantime. When they are done, they call a function with their results.</p>
<p>The <code>m.request</code> function takes time to run because it makes an HTTP request to a remote server and has to wait for a response