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A function defined as async is a function that can perform asynchronous actions but still look synchronous. The way it's done is using the await keyword to defer the function while it waits for a Promise to resolve or reject. Note: Async functions are a Stage 4 ("Finished") proposal on tr...

With promises: function doTheThing() { return doOneThing() .then(doAnother) .then(doSomeMore) .catch(handleErrors) } With async functions: async function doTheThing() { try { const one = await doOneThing(); const another = await doAnother(...

You have to keep the operator precedence in mind when using await keyword. Imagine that we have an asynchronous function which calls another asynchronous function, getUnicorn() which returns a Promise that resolves to an instance of class Unicorn. Now we want to get the size of the unicorn using th...

async functions do not replace the Promise type; they add language keywords that make promises easier to call. They are interchangeable: async function doAsyncThing() { ... } function doPromiseThing(input) { return new Promise((r, x) => ...); } // Call with promise syntax doAsyncThing() ...

When using async await in loops, you might encounter some of these problems. If you just try to use await inside forEach, this will throw an Unexpected token error. (async() => { data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; data.forEach(e => { const i = await somePromiseFn(e); console.log(i); }); ...

Often you will want to perform asynchronous operations in parallel. There is direct syntax that supports this in the async/await proposal, but since await will wait for a promise, you can wrap multiple promises together in Promise.all to wait for them: // Not in parallel async function getFriend...