Yield还可以使用协程框架来消除回调地狱。

function start(routine, data) {
    result = routine.next(data);
    if(!result.done) {
        result.value(function(err, data) {
            if(err) routine.throw(err); // continue next iteration of routine with an exception
            else start(routine, data);  // continue next iteration of routine normally
        });
    }
}

// with nodejs as 'node --harmony'
fs = require('fs');
function read(path) {
    return function(callback) { fs.readFile(path, {encoding:'utf8'}, callback); };
}

function* routine() {
    text = yield read('/path/to/some/file.txt');
    console.log(text);
}

// with mdn javascript 1.7
http.get = function(url) {
    return function(callback) { 
        // make xhr request object, 
        // use callback(null, resonseText) on status 200,
        // or callback(responseText) on status 500
    };
};

function* routine() {
    text = yield http.get('/path/to/some/file.txt');
    console.log(text);
}

// invoked as.., on both mdn and nodejs

start(routine());

它用于迭代器生成器。基本上，它允许您使用过程代码制作(可能是无限的)序列。请参阅Mozilla的文档。

举个简单的例子:

const strArr = ["red", "green", "blue", "black"];

const strGen = function*() {
    for(let str of strArr) {
        yield str;
    }
};

let gen = strGen();

for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    console.log(gen.next())
}

//prints: {value: "red", done: false} -> 5 times with different colors, if you try it again as below:

console.log(gen.next());

//prints: {value: undefined, done: true}

在我看来，MDN文档非常好。

The function containing the yield keyword is a generator. When you call it, its formal parameters are bound to actual arguments, but its body isn't actually evaluated. Instead, a generator-iterator is returned. Each call to the generator-iterator's next() method performs another pass through the iterative algorithm. Each step's value is the value specified by the yield keyword. Think of yield as the generator-iterator version of return, indicating the boundary between each iteration of the algorithm. Each time you call next(), the generator code resumes from the statement following the yield.

迟回答，也许现在每个人都知道收益率，但一些更好的文件已经出现。

将James Long的《Javascript的未来:生成器》中的一个例子改编为官方的Harmony标准:

function * foo(x) {
    while (true) {
        x = x * 2;
        yield x;
    }
}

当你调用foo时，你会得到一个Generator对象，它有一个next 方法。”

var g = foo(2);
g.next(); // -> 4
g.next(); // -> 8
g.next(); // -> 16

收益率有点像回报，你会得到一些回报。Return x返回x的值，但yield x返回一个函数，它为您提供了一个迭代到下一个值的方法。如果您有一个潜在的内存密集型过程，您可能希望在迭代期间中断这个过程，那么这个方法很有用。

使用yield关键字的斐波那契序列生成器。

function* fibonacci() {
    var a = -1, b = 1, c;
    while(1) {
        c = a + b;
        a = b;
        b = c;
        yield c;
    }   
}

var fibonacciGenerator = fibonacci();
fibonacciGenerator.next().value; // 0 
fibonacciGenerator.next().value; // 1
fibonacciGenerator.next().value; // 1
fibonacciGenerator.next().value; // 2