function foo() {
    var result;

    $.ajax({
        url: '...',
        success: function(response) {
            result = response;
            // return response; // <- I tried that one as well
        }
    });

    return result;
}

var result = foo(); // It always ends up being `undefined`.

function findItem() {
    var item;
    while(item_not_found) {
        // search
    }
    return item;
}

var item = findItem();

// Do something with item
doSomethingElse();

findItem(function(item) {
    // Do something with item
});
doSomethingElse();

var result = foo();
// Code that depends on 'result'

foo(function(result) {
    // Code that depends on 'result'
});

function myCallback(result) {
    // Code that depends on 'result'
}

foo(myCallback);

function foo(callback) {
    $.ajax({
        // ...
        success: callback
    });
}

function foo(callback) {
    $.ajax({
        // ...
        success: function(response) {
            // For example, filter the response
            callback(filtered_response);
        }
    });
}

function delay() {
  // `delay` returns a promise
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    // Only `delay` is able to resolve or reject the promise
    setTimeout(function() {
      resolve(42); // After 3 seconds, resolve the promise with value 42
    }, 3000);
  });
}

delay().then(function(v) { // `delay` returns a promise
  console.log(v); // Log the value once it is resolved
}).catch(function(v) {
  // Or do something else if it is rejected
  // (it would not happen in this example, since `reject` is not called).
});

function ajax(url) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.onload = function() {
      resolve(this.responseText);
    };
    xhr.onerror = reject;
    xhr.open('GET', url);
    xhr.send();
  });
}

ajax("/echo/json").then(function(result) {
  // Code depending on result
}).catch(function() {
  // An error occurred
});

function ajax() {
    return $.ajax(...);
}

ajax().done(function(result) {
    // Code depending on result
}).fail(function() {
    // An error occurred
});

function checkPassword() {
    return $.ajax({
        url: '/password',
        data: {
            username: $('#username').val(),
            password: $('#password').val()
        },
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'json'
    });
}

if (checkPassword()) {
    // Tell the user they're logged in
}

checkPassword()
.done(function(r) {
    if (r) {
        // Tell the user they're logged in
    } else {
        // Tell the user their password was bad
    }
})
.fail(function(x) {
    // Tell the user something bad happened
});

function foo() {
    var jqXHR = $.ajax({
        //...
        async: false
    });
    return jqXHR.responseText;
}

function foo() {
    var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
    httpRequest.open('GET', "/echo/json");
    httpRequest.send();
    return httpRequest.responseText;
}

var result = foo(); // always ends up being 'undefined'

function getFive(){
    var a;
    setTimeout(function(){
         a=5;
    },10);
    return a;
}

function onComplete(a){ // When the code completes, do this
    alert(a);
}

function getFive(whenDone){
    var a;
    setTimeout(function(){
         a=5;
         whenDone(a);
    },10);
}

getFive(onComplete);

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'yourURL', false);  // `false` makes the request synchronous
request.send(null);

if (request.status === 200) {// That's HTTP for 'ok'
  console.log(request.responseText);
}

var result = foo();
// code that depends on `result` goes here

foo(function(result) {
    // code that depends on `result`
});

function myHandler(result) {
    // code that depends on `result`
}
foo(myHandler);

function foo(callback) {
    var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
    httpRequest.onload = function(){ // when the request is loaded
       callback(httpRequest.responseText);// we're calling our method
    };
    httpRequest.open('GET', "/echo/json");
    httpRequest.send();
}

function ajax(a,b,c){ // Url, Callback, just a placeholder
 c=new XMLHttpRequest;
 c.open('GET',a);
 c.onload=b;
 c.send()
}

this.response

e.target.response

function callback(e){
 console.log(this.response);
}
ajax('URL',callback);

ajax('URL',function(e){console.log(this.response)});

function x(a,b,e,d,c){ // Url,callback,method,formdata or {key:val},placeholder
 c=new XMLHttpRequest;
 c.open(e||'get',a);
 c.onload=b;
 c.send(d||null)
}

x(url,callback);//by default it's get so no need to set
x(url,callback,'post',{'key':'val'}); //no need to set post data

var fd=new FormData(form);
x(url,callback,'post',fd);

var fd=new FormData();
fd.append('key','val')
x(url,callback,'post',fd);

function x(a,b,e,d,c){ // URL,callback,method,formdata or {key:val},placeholder
 c=new XMLHttpRequest;
 c.open(e||'get',a);
 c.onload=b;
 c.onerror=error;
 c.send(d||null)
}
function error(e){
 console.log('--Error--',this.type);
 console.log('this: ',this);
 console.log('Event: ',e)
}
function displayAjax(e){
 console.log(e,this);
}
x('WRONGURL',displayAjax);

function omg(a,c){ // Url
 c=new XMLHttpRequest;
 c.open('GET',a,true);
 c.send();
 return c; //or c.response
}

var res=omg('thisIsGonnaBlockThePage.txt');

function foo() {
    var data;
    // or $.get(...).then, or request(...).then, or query(...).then
    fetch("/echo/json").then(function(response){
        data = response.json();
    });
    return data;
}

var result = foo(); // result is always undefined no matter what.

function delay(ms){ // takes amount of milliseconds
    // returns a new promise
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
        setTimeout(function(){ // when the time is up
            resolve(); // change the promise to the fulfilled state
        }, ms);
    });
}

function foo() {
    // RETURN the promise
    return fetch("/echo/json").then(function(response){
        return response.json(); // process it inside the `then`
    });
}

foo().then(function(response){
    // access the value inside the `then`
})

function* foo(){ // notice the star, this is ES6 so new browsers/node/io only
    yield 1;
    yield 2;
    while(true) yield 3;
}

var foo = coroutine(function*(){
    var data = yield fetch("/echo/json"); // notice the yield
    // code here only executes _after_ the request is done
    return data.json(); // data is defined
});

var main = coroutine(function*(){
   var bar = yield foo(); // wait our earlier coroutine, it returns a promise
   // server call done here, code below executes when done
   var baz = yield fetch("/api/users/"+bar.userid); // depends on foo's result
   console.log(baz); // runs after both requests done
});
main();

async function foo(){
    var data = await fetch("/echo/json"); // notice the await
    // code here only executes _after_ the request is done
    return data.json(); // data is defined
}

function handleData( responseData ) {

    // Do what you want with the data
    console.log(responseData);
}

$.ajax({
    url: "hi.php",
    ...
    success: function ( data, status, XHR ) {
        handleData(data);
    }
});

function callServerAsync(){
    $.ajax({
        url: '...',
        success: function(response) {

            successCallback(response);
        }
    });
}

function successCallback(responseObj){
    // Do something like read the response and show data
    alert(JSON.stringify(responseObj)); // Only applicable to JSON response
}

promiseB = promiseA.then(
    function onSuccess(result) {
      return result + 1;
    }
    ,function onError(err) {
      //Handle error
    }
  );

 // promiseB will be resolved immediately after promiseA is resolved
 // and its value will be the result of promiseA incremented by 1.

var async = require("async");

// This wires up result back to the caller
var result = {};
var asyncTasks = [];
asyncTasks.push(function(_callback){
    // some asynchronous operation
    $.ajax({
        url: '...',
        success: function(response) {
            result.response = response;
            _callback();
        }
    });
});

async.parallel(asyncTasks, function(){
    // result is available after performing asynchronous operation
    console.log(result)
    console.log('Done');
});

if (!name) {
  name = async1();
}
async2(name);

async1(name, callback) {
  if (name)
    callback(name)
  else {
    doSomething(callback)
  }
}

async1(name, async2)

var Fiber = require('fibers')

function async1(container) {
  var current = Fiber.current
  doSomething(function(name) {
    container.unshift(name)
    fiber.run()
  })
  Fiber.yield()
}

Fiber(function() {
  var name
  var container = []
  if (!name) {
    async1(container) // Taking advantage of the fact that arrays are passed by reference
    name = container[0]
  }
  async2(name)
  // Make any number of async calls from here
}

[
 "search?type=playlist&q=%22doom%20metal%22",
 "search?type=playlist&q=Adele"
]

function foo(result) {
    $.ajax({
        url: '...',
        success: function(response) {
            result.response = response;   // Store the async result
        }
    });
}

var result = { response: null };   // Object to hold the async result
foo(result);                       // Returns before the async completes