Async and Await

Javascript course, introduction.

Asynchronous code can become difficult to follow when it has a lot of things going on. async and await are two keywords that can help make asynchronous read more like synchronous code. This can help code look cleaner while keeping the benefits of asynchronous code.

For example, the two code blocks below do the exact same thing. They both get information from a server, process it, and return a promise.

The second example looks much more like the kind of functions you are used to writing. However, did you notice the async keyword before the function declaration? How about the await keyword before server.getPeople() ?

If you’d like to try running these functions on your own, paste the following code block representing a server before the function definitions. How this “server” works is not important and is just an abstraction. The goal here is so that you can see that both functions behave exactly the same and return a promise.

Lesson overview

This section contains a general overview of topics that you will learn in this lesson.

  • Explain how you declare an async function.
  • Explain what the async keyword does.
  • Explain what the await keyword does.
  • Explain what an async function returns.
  • Explain what happens when an error is thrown inside an async function.
  • Explain how you can handle errors inside an async function.

The async keyword

The async keyword is what lets the JavaScript engine know that you are declaring an asynchronous function. This is required to use await inside any function. When a function is declared with async , it automatically returns a promise; returning in an async function is the same as resolving a promise. Likewise, throwing an error will reject the promise.

An important thing to understand is async functions are just syntactical sugar for promises .

The async keyword can also be used with any of the ways a function can be created. Said differently: it is valid to use an async function anywhere you can use a normal function. Below you will see some examples that may not be intuitive. If you don’t understand them, come back and take a look when you are done with the assignments.

The await keyword

await does the following: it tells JavaScript to wait for an asynchronous action to finish before continuing the function. It’s like a ‘pause until done’ keyword. The await keyword is used to get a value from a function where you would normally use .then() . Instead of calling .then() after the asynchronous function, you would assign a variable to the result using await . Then you can use the result in your code as you would in your synchronous code.

Error handling

Handling errors in async functions is very easy. Promises have the .catch() method for handling rejected promises, and since async functions just return a promise, you can call the function, and append a .catch() method to the end.

But there is another way: the mighty try/catch block! If you want to handle the error directly inside the async function, you can use try/catch just like you would inside synchronous code.

Doing this can look messy, but it is a very easy way to handle errors without appending .catch() after your function calls. How you handle the errors is up to you, and which method you use should be determined by how your code was written. You will get a feel for what needs to be done over time. The assignments will also help you understand how to handle your errors.

Remember the Giphy API practice project? (If not, you should go back and complete the API lesson). We are going to convert the promise based code into async/await compatible code. Here’s a refresher of the code we are starting with:

Since await does not work on the global scope, we will have to create an async function that wraps our API call to Giphy.

Now that we have a function that is asynchronous, we can then start refactoring from using promises to using await :

Since response is still the same object we have passed to the .then() block at the start, we still need to use the .json() method, which in turn returns a promise. Because .json() returns a promise, we can use await to assign the response to a variable.

To use this function, we just need to call it with getCats() in our code.

This code will behave exactly like the code from the last lesson; it just looks a bit different after refactoring. async/await are very useful tools when it comes to cleaning up asynchronous JavaScript code. It is important to remember async/await are just promises written in a different way. Do the assignments below, and dive deeper into the understanding of async/await .

  • Read this Async and Await article for a solid introduction to async/await. This Async and Await examples article also has some good examples of its use.
  • Watch this Async and Await video by Wes Bos for a good overview on async/await and its purpose, along with a special trick.

Knowledge check

This section contains questions for you to check your understanding of this lesson. If you’re having trouble answering the questions below on your own, review the material above to find the answer.

  • How do you declare an async function?
  • What does the async keyword do?
  • What does the await keyword do?
  • What is returned from an async function?
  • What happens when an error is thrown inside an async function?
  • How can you handle errors inside an async function?

Additional resources

This section contains helpful links to related content. It isn’t required, so consider it supplemental.

  • This Change promises to async/await video is an example of how you can change callbacks, to promises, to async/await.
  • This Promises, Async and Await video gives a comprehensive view of Promises, async, and await.
  • For a more interactive explanation and example, try a Scrim on async and await .

Async/await

There’s a special syntax to work with promises in a more comfortable fashion, called “async/await”. It’s surprisingly easy to understand and use.

Async functions

Let’s start with the async keyword. It can be placed before a function, like this:

The word “async” before a function means one simple thing: a function always returns a promise. Other values are wrapped in a resolved promise automatically.

For instance, this function returns a resolved promise with the result of 1 ; let’s test it:

…We could explicitly return a promise, which would be the same:

So, async ensures that the function returns a promise, and wraps non-promises in it. Simple enough, right? But not only that. There’s another keyword, await , that works only inside async functions, and it’s pretty cool.

The syntax:

The keyword await makes JavaScript wait until that promise settles and returns its result.

Here’s an example with a promise that resolves in 1 second:

The function execution “pauses” at the line (*) and resumes when the promise settles, with result becoming its result. So the code above shows “done!” in one second.

Let’s emphasize: await literally suspends the function execution until the promise settles, and then resumes it with the promise result. That doesn’t cost any CPU resources, because the JavaScript engine can do other jobs in the meantime: execute other scripts, handle events, etc.

It’s just a more elegant syntax of getting the promise result than promise.then . And, it’s easier to read and write.

If we try to use await in a non-async function, there would be a syntax error:

We may get this error if we forget to put async before a function. As stated earlier, await only works inside an async function.

Let’s take the showAvatar() example from the chapter Promises chaining and rewrite it using async/await :

  • We’ll need to replace .then calls with await .
  • Also we should make the function async for them to work.

Pretty clean and easy to read, right? Much better than before.

In modern browsers, await on top level works just fine, when we’re inside a module. We’ll cover modules in article Modules, introduction .

For instance:

If we’re not using modules, or older browsers must be supported, there’s a universal recipe: wrapping into an anonymous async function.

Like promise.then , await allows us to use thenable objects (those with a callable then method). The idea is that a third-party object may not be a promise, but promise-compatible: if it supports .then , that’s enough to use it with await .

Here’s a demo Thenable class; the await below accepts its instances:

If await gets a non-promise object with .then , it calls that method providing the built-in functions resolve and reject as arguments (just as it does for a regular Promise executor). Then await waits until one of them is called (in the example above it happens in the line (*) ) and then proceeds with the result.

To declare an async class method, just prepend it with async :

The meaning is the same: it ensures that the returned value is a promise and enables await .

Error handling

If a promise resolves normally, then await promise returns the result. But in the case of a rejection, it throws the error, just as if there were a throw statement at that line.

…is the same as this:

In real situations, the promise may take some time before it rejects. In that case there will be a delay before await throws an error.

We can catch that error using try..catch , the same way as a regular throw :

In the case of an error, the control jumps to the catch block. We can also wrap multiple lines:

If we don’t have try..catch , then the promise generated by the call of the async function f() becomes rejected. We can append .catch to handle it:

If we forget to add .catch there, then we get an unhandled promise error (viewable in the console). We can catch such errors using a global unhandledrejection event handler as described in the chapter Error handling with promises .

When we use async/await , we rarely need .then , because await handles the waiting for us. And we can use a regular try..catch instead of .catch . That’s usually (but not always) more convenient.

But at the top level of the code, when we’re outside any async function, we’re syntactically unable to use await , so it’s a normal practice to add .then/catch to handle the final result or falling-through error, like in the line (*) of the example above.

When we need to wait for multiple promises, we can wrap them in Promise.all and then await :

In the case of an error, it propagates as usual, from the failed promise to Promise.all , and then becomes an exception that we can catch using try..catch around the call.

The async keyword before a function has two effects:

  • Makes it always return a promise.
  • Allows await to be used in it.

The await keyword before a promise makes JavaScript wait until that promise settles, and then:

  • If it’s an error, an exception is generated — same as if throw error were called at that very place.
  • Otherwise, it returns the result.

Together they provide a great framework to write asynchronous code that is easy to both read and write.

With async/await we rarely need to write promise.then/catch , but we still shouldn’t forget that they are based on promises, because sometimes (e.g. in the outermost scope) we have to use these methods. Also Promise.all is nice when we are waiting for many tasks simultaneously.

Rewrite using async/await

Rewrite this example code from the chapter Promises chaining using async/await instead of .then/catch :

The notes are below the code:

The function loadJson becomes async .

All .then inside are replaced with await .

We can return response.json() instead of awaiting for it, like this:

Then the outer code would have to await for that promise to resolve. In our case it doesn’t matter.

The error thrown from loadJson is handled by .catch . We can’t use await loadJson(…) there, because we’re not in an async function.

Rewrite "rethrow" with async/await

Below you can find the “rethrow” example. Rewrite it using async/await instead of .then/catch .

And get rid of the recursion in favour of a loop in demoGithubUser : with async/await that becomes easy to do.

There are no tricks here. Just replace .catch with try..catch inside demoGithubUser and add async/await where needed:

Call async from non-async

We have a “regular” function called f . How can you call the async function wait() and use its result inside of f ?

P.S. The task is technically very simple, but the question is quite common for developers new to async/await.

That’s the case when knowing how it works inside is helpful.

Just treat async call as promise and attach .then to it:

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Async JavaScript: From Callbacks, to Promises, to Async/Await

Tyler mcginnis updated october 30, 2018 12 minute read.

One of my favorite sites is BerkshireHathaway.com - it's simple, effective, and has been doing its job well since it launched in 1997. Even more remarkable, over the last 20 years, there's a good chance this site has never had a bug. Why? Because it's all static. It's been pretty much the same since it launched over 20 years ago. Turns out sites are pretty simple to build if you have all of your data up front. Unfortunately, most sites now days don't. To compensate for this, we've invented "patterns" for handling fetching external data for our apps. Like most things, these patterns each have tradeoffs that have changed over time. In this post, we'll break down the pros and cons of three of the most common patterns, Callbacks , Promises , and Async/Await and talk about their significance and progression from a historical context.

Let's start with the OG of these data fetching patterns, Callbacks.

I'm going to assume you know exactly 0 about callbacks. If I'm assuming wrong, just scroll down a bit.

When I was first learning to program, it helped me to think about functions as machines. These machines can do anything you want them to. They can even accept input and return a value. Each machine has a button on it that you can press when you want the machine to run, ().

Whether I press the button, you press the button, or someone else presses the button doesn't matter. Whenever the button is pressed, like it or not, the machine is going to run.

In the code above we assign the add function to three different variables, me , you , and someoneElse . It's important to note that the original add and each of the variables we created are pointing to the same spot in memory. They're literally the exact same thing under different names. So when we invoke me , you , or someoneElse , it's as if we're invoking add .

Now, what if we take our add machine and pass it to another machine? Remember, it doesn't matter who presses the () button, if it's pressed, it's going to run.

Your brain might have got a little weird on this one, nothing new is going on here though. Instead of "pressing the button" on add , we pass add as an argument to addFive , rename it addReference , and then we "press the button" or invoke it.

This highlights some important concepts of the JavaScript language. First, just as you can pass a string or a number as an argument to a function, so too can you pass a reference to a function as an argument. When you do this the function you're passing as an argument is called a callback function and the function you're passing the callback function to is called a higher order function .

Because vocabulary is important, here's the same code with the variables re-named to match the concepts they're demonstrating.

This pattern should look familiar, it's everywhere. If you've ever used any of the JavaScript Array methods, you've used a callback. If you've ever used lodash, you've used a callback. If you've ever used jQuery, you've used a callback.

In general, there are two popular use cases for callbacks. The first, and what we see in the .map and _.filter examples, is a nice abstraction over transforming one value into another. We say "Hey, here's an array and a function. Go ahead and get me a new value based on the function I gave you". The second, and what we see in the jQuery example, is delaying execution of a function until a particular time. "Hey, here's this function. Go ahead and invoke it whenever the element with an id of btn is clicked." It's this second use case that we're going to focus on, "delaying execution of a function until a particular time".

Right now we've only looked at examples that are synchronous. As we talked about at the beginning of this post, most of the apps we build don't have all the data they need up front. Instead, they need to fetch external data as the user interacts with the app. We've just seen how callbacks can be a great use case for this because, again, they allow you to "delay execution of a function until a particular time". It doesn't take much imagination to see how we can adapt that sentence to work with data fetching. Instead of delaying execution of a function until a particular time , we can delay execution of a function until we have the data we need . Here's probably the most popular example of this, jQuery's getJSON method.

We can't update the UI of our app until we have the user's data. So what do we do? We say, "Hey, here's an object. If the request succeeds, go ahead and call success passing it the user's data. If it doesn't, go ahead and call error passing it the error object. You don't need to worry about what each method does, just be sure to call them when you're supposed to". This is a perfect demonstration of using a callback for async requests.

At this point, we've learned about what callbacks are and how they can be beneficial both in synchronous and asynchronous code. What we haven't talked yet is the dark side of callbacks. Take a look at this code below. Can you tell what's happening?

If it helps, you can play around with the live version here .

Notice we've added a few more layers of callbacks. First, we're saying don't run the initial AJAX request until the element with an id of btn is clicked. Once the button is clicked, we make the first request. If that request succeeds, we make a second request. If that request succeeds, we invoke the updateUI method passing it the data we got from both requests. Regardless of if you understood the code at first glance or not, objectively it's much harder to read than the code before. This brings us to the topic of "Callback Hell".

As humans, we naturally think sequentially. When you have nested callbacks inside of nested callbacks, it forces you out of your natural way of thinking. Bugs happen when there's a disconnect between how your software is read and how you naturally think.

Like most solutions to software problems, a commonly prescribed approach for making "Callback Hell" easier to consume is to modularize your code.

OK, the function names help us understand what's going on, but is it objectively "better"? Not by much. We've put a band-aid over the readability issue of Callback Hell. The problem still exists that we naturally think sequentially and, even with the extra functions, nested callbacks break us out of that sequential way of thinking.

The next issue of callbacks has to do with inversion of control . When you write a callback, you're assuming that the program you're giving the callback to is responsible and will call it when (and only when) it's supposed to. You're essentially inverting the control of your program over to another program. When you're dealing with libraries like jQuery, lodash, or even vanilla JavaScript, it's safe to assume that the callback function will be invoked at the correct time with the correct arguments. However, for many third-party libraries, callback functions are the interface for how you interact with them. It's entirely plausible that a third party library could, whether on purpose or accidentally, break how they interact with your callback.

Since you're not the one calling criticalFunction , you have 0 control over when and with what argument it's invoked. Most of the time this isn't an issue, but when it is, it's a big one.

Have you ever been to a busy restaurant without a reservation? When this happens, the restaurant needs a way to get back in contact with you when a table opens up. Historically, they'd just take your name and yell it when your table was ready. Then, as naturally occurs, they decided to start getting fancy. One solution was, instead of taking your name, they'd take your number and text you once a table opened up. This allowed you to be out of yelling range but more importantly, it allowed them to target your phone with ads whenever they wanted. Sound familiar? It should! OK, maybe it shouldn't. It's a metaphor for callbacks! Giving your number to a restaurant is just like giving a callback function to a third party service. You expect the restaurant to text you when a table opens up, just like you expect the third party service to invoke your function when and how they said they would. Once your number or callback function is in their hands though, you've lost all control.

Thankfully, there is another solution that exists. One that, by design, allows you to keep all the control. You've probably even experienced it before - it's that little buzzer thing they give you. You know, this one.

Restaurant Buzzer

If you've never used one before, the idea is simple. Instead of taking your name or number, they give you this device. When the device starts buzzing and glowing, your table is ready. You can still do whatever you'd like as you're waiting for your table to open up, but now you don't have to give up anything. In fact, it's the exact opposite. They have to give you something. There is no inversion of control.

The buzzer will always be in one of three different states - pending , fulfilled , or rejected .

pending is the default, initial state. When they give you the buzzer, it's in this state.

fulfilled is the state the buzzer is in when it's flashing and your table is ready.

rejected is the state the buzzer is in when something goes wrong. Maybe the restaurant is about to close or they forgot someone rented out the restaurant for the night.

Again, the important thing to remember is that you, the receiver of the buzzer, have all the control. If the buzzer gets put into fulfilled , you can go to your table. If it gets put into fulfilled and you want to ignore it, cool, you can do that too. If it gets put into rejected , that sucks but you can go somewhere else to eat. If nothing ever happens and it stays in pending , you never get to eat but you're not actually out anything.

Now that you're a master of the restaurant buzzer thingy, let's apply that knowledge to something that matters.

If giving the restaurant your number is like giving them a callback function, receiving the little buzzy thing is like receiving what's called a "Promise".

As always, let's start with why . Why do Promises exist? They exist to make the complexity of making asynchronous requests more manageable. Exactly like the buzzer, a Promise can be in one of three states, pending , fulfilled or rejected . Unlike the buzzer, instead of these states representing the status of a table at a restaurant, they represent the status of an asynchronous request.

If the async request is still ongoing, the Promise will have a status of pending . If the async request was successfully completed, the Promise will change to a status of fulfilled . If the async request failed, the Promise will change to a status of rejected . The buzzer metaphor is pretty spot on, right?

Now that you understand why Promises exist and the different states they can be in, there are three more questions we need to answer.

  • How do you create a Promise?
  • How do you change the status of a promise?
  • How do you listen for when the status of a promise changes?

1) How do you create a Promise?

This one is pretty straight forward. You create a new instance of Promise .

2) How do you change the status of a promise?

The Promise constructor function takes in a single argument, a (callback) function. This function is going to be passed two arguments, resolve and reject .

resolve - a function that allows you to change the status of the promise to fulfilled

reject - a function that allows you to change the status of the promise to rejected .

In the code below, we use setTimeout to wait 2 seconds and then invoke resolve . This will change the status of the promise to fulfilled .

We can see this change in action by logging the promise right after we create it and then again roughly 2 seconds later after resolve has been called.

Notice the promise goes from <pending> to <resolved> .

3) How do you listen for when the status of a promise changes?

In my opinion, this is the most important question. It's cool we know how to create a promise and change its status, but that's worthless if we don't know how to do anything after the status changes.

One thing we haven't talked about yet is what a promise actually is. When you create a new Promise , you're really just creating a plain old JavaScript object. This object can invoke two methods, then , and catch . Here's the key. When the status of the promise changes to fulfilled , the function that was passed to .then will get invoked. When the status of a promise changes to rejected , the function that was passed to .catch will be invoked. What this means is that once you create a promise, you'll pass the function you want to run if the async request is successful to .then . You'll pass the function you want to run if the async request fails to .catch .

Let's take a look at an example. We'll use setTimeout again to change the status of the promise to fulfilled after two seconds (2000 milliseconds).

If you run the code above you'll notice that roughly 2 seconds later, you'll see "Success!" in the console. Again the reason this happens is because of two things. First, when we created the promise, we invoked resolve after ~2000 milliseconds - this changed the status of the promise to fulfilled . Second, we passed the onSuccess function to the promises' .then method. By doing that we told the promise to invoke onSuccess when the status of the promise changed to fulfilled which it did after ~2000 milliseconds.

Now let's pretend something bad happened and we wanted to change the status of the promise to rejected . Instead of calling resolve , we would call reject .

Now this time instead of the onSuccess function being invoked, the onError function will be invoked since we called reject .

Now that you know your way around the Promise API, let's start looking at some real code.

Remember the last async callback example we saw earlier?

Is there any way we could use the Promise API here instead of using callbacks? What if we wrap our AJAX requests inside of a promise? Then we can simply resolve or reject depending on how the request goes. Let's start with getUser .

Nice. Notice that the parameters of getUser have changed. Instead of receiving id , onSuccess , and onFailure , it just receives id . There's no more need for those other two callback functions because we're no longer inverting control. Instead, we use the Promise's resolve and reject functions. resolve will be invoked if the request was successful, reject will be invoked if there was an error.

Next, let's refactor getWeather . We'll follow the same strategy here. Instead of taking in onSuccess and onFailure callback functions, we'll use resolve and reject .

Looking good. Now the last thing we need to update is our click handler. Remember, here's the flow we want to take.

  • Get the user's information from the Github API.
  • Use the user's location to get their weather from the Yahoo Weather API.
  • Update the UI with the user's info and their weather.

Let's start with #1 - getting the user's information from the Github API.

Notice that now instead of getUser taking in two callback functions, it returns us a promise that we can call .then and .catch on. If .then is called, it'll be called with the user's information. If .catch is called, it'll be called with the error.

Next, let's do #2 - Use the user's location to get their weather.

Notice we follow the exact same pattern we did in #1 but now we invoke getWeather passing it the user object we got from userPromise .

Finally, #3 - Update the UI with the user's info and their weather.

Here's the full code you can play around with.

Our new code is better , but there are still some improvements we can make. Before we can make those improvements though, there are two more features of promises you need to be aware of, chaining and passing arguments from resolve to then .

Both .then and .catch will return a new promise. That seems like a small detail but it's important because it means that promises can be chained.

In the example below, we call getPromise which returns us a promise that will resolve in at least 2000 milliseconds. From there, because .then will return a promise, we can continue to chain our .then s together until we throw a new Error which is caught by the .catch method.

Cool, but why is this so important? Remember back in the callback section we talked about one of the downfalls of callbacks being that they force you out of your natural, sequential way of thinking. When you chain promises together, it doesn't force you out of that natural way of thinking because chained promises are sequential. getPromise runs then logA runs then logB runs then... .

Just so you can see one more example, here's a common use case when you use the fetch API. fetch will return you a promise that will resolve with the HTTP response. To get the actual JSON, you'll need to call .json . Because of chaining, we can think about this in a sequential manner.

Now that we know about chaining, let's refactor our getUser / getWeather code from earlier to use it.

It looks much better, but now we're running into an issue. Can you spot it? In the second .then we want to call updateUI . The problem is we need to pass updateUI both the user and the weather . Currently, how we have it set up, we're only receiving the weather , not the user . Somehow we need to figure out a way to make it so the promise that getWeather returns is resolved with both the user and the weather .

Here's the key. resolve is just a function. Any arguments you pass to it will be passed along to the function given to .then . What that means is that inside of getWeather , if we invoke resolve ourself, we can pass to it weather and user . Then, the second .then method in our chain will receive both user and weather as an argument.

You can play around with the final code here

It's in our click handler where you really see the power of promises shine compared to callbacks.

Following that logic feels natural because it's how we're used to thinking, sequentially. getUser then getWeather then update the UI with the data .

Now it's clear that promises drastically increase the readability of our asynchronous code, but is there a way we can make it even better? Assume that you were on the TC39 committee and you had all the power to add new features to the JavaScript language. What steps, if any, would you take to improve this code?

As we've discussed, the code reads pretty nicely. Just as our brains work, it's in a sequential order. One issue that we did run into was that we needed to thread the data ( users ) from the first async request all the way through to the last .then . This wasn't a big deal, but it made us change up our getWeather function to also pass along users . What if we just wrote our asynchronous code the same way which we write our synchronous code? If we did, that problem would go away entirely and it would still read sequentially. Here's an idea.

Well, that would be nice. Our asynchronous code looks exactly like our synchronous code. There's no extra steps our brain needs to take because we're already very familiar with this way of thinking. Sadly, this obviously won't work. As you know, if we were to run the code above, user and weather would both just be promises since that's what getUser and getWeather return. But remember, we're on TC39. We have all the power to add any feature to the language we want. As is, this code would be really tricky to make work. We'd have to somehow teach the JavaScript engine to know the difference between asynchronous function invocations and regular, synchronous function invocations on the fly. Let's add a few keywords to our code to make it easier on the engine.

First, let's add a keyword to the main function itself. This could clue the engine to the fact that inside of this function, we're going to have some asynchronous function invocations. Let's use async for this.

Cool. That seems reasonable. Next let's add another keyword to let the engine know exactly when a function being invoked is asynchronous and is going to return a promise. Let's use await . As in, "Hey engine. This function is asynchronous and returns a promise. Instead of continuing on like you typically do, go ahead and 'await' the eventual value of the promise and return it before continuing". With both of our new async and await keywords in play, our new code will look like this.

Pretty slick. We've invented a reasonable way to have our asynchronous code look and behave as if it were synchronous. Now the next step is to actually convince someone on TC39 that this is a good idea. Lucky for us, as you probably guessed by now, we don't need to do any convincing because this feature is already part of JavaScript and it's called Async/Await .

Don't believe me? Here's our live code now that we've added Async/Await to it. Feel free to play around with it.

async functions return a promise

Now that you've seen the benefit of Async/Await, let's discuss some smaller details that are important to know. First, anytime you add async to a function, that function is going to implicitly return a promise.

Even though getPromise is literally empty, it'll still return a promise since it was an async function.

If the async function returns a value, that value will also get wrapped in a promise. That means you'll have to use .then to access it.

await without async is bad

If you try to use the await keyword inside of a function that isn't async , you'll get an error.

Here's how I think about it. When you add async to a function it does two things. It makes it so the function itself returns (or wraps what gets returned in) a promise and makes it so you can use await inside of it.

Error Handling

You may have noticed we cheated a little bit. In our original code we had a way to catch any errors using .catch . When we switched to Async/Await, we removed that code. With Async/Await, the most common approach is to wrap your code in a try/catch block to be able to catch the error.

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Summary : in this tutorial, you will learn how to write asynchronous code  using JavaScript   async /  await keywords.

Note that to understand how the async / await works, you need to know how promises work.

Introduction to JavaScript async / await keywords

In the past, to deal with asynchronous operations, you often used the callback functions . However, when you nest many callback functions, the code will be more difficult to maintain. And you end up with a notorious issue which is known as the callback hell.

Suppose that you need to perform three asynchronous operations in the following sequence:

  • Select a user from the database.
  • Get services of the user from an API.
  • Calculate the service cost based on the services from the server. 

The following functions illustrate the three tasks. Note that we use the setTimeout() function to simulate the asynchronous operation.

The following shows the nested callback functions:

To avoid this callback hell issue, ES6 introduced the promises that allow you to write asynchronous code in more manageable ways.

First, you need to return a Promise in each function:

Then, you chain the promises :

ES2017 introduced the async / await keywords that build on top of promises, allowing you to write asynchronous code that looks more like synchronous code and is more readable. Technically speaking, the async / await is syntactic sugar for promises.

If a function returns a Promise, you can place the await keyword in front of the function call, like this:

The await will wait for the Promise returned from the f() to settle. The await keyword can be used only inside the async functions.

The following defines an async function that calls the three asynchronous operations in sequence:

As you can see, the asynchronous code now looks like the synchronous code.

Let’s dive into the async / await keywords.

The async keyword

The async keyword allows you to define a function that handles asynchronous operations.

To define an async function, you place the async keyword in front of the function keyword as follows:

Asynchronous functions execute asynchronously via the event loop . It always returns a Promise . 

In this example, because the sayHi() function returns a Promise , you can consume it, like this:

You can also explicitly return a Promise from the sayHi() function as shown in the following code:

The effect is the same.

Besides the regular functions, you can use the async keyword in the function expressions:

arrow functions :

and methods of classes:

The await keyword

You use the await keyword to wait for a Promise to settle either in a resolved or rejected state. You can use the await keyword only inside an async function:

In this example, the await keyword instructs the JavaScript engine to wait for the sayHi() function to complete before displaying the message.

Note that if you use the await operator outside of an async function, you will get an error.

Error handling

If a promise resolves, the await promise returns the result. However, when the promise is rejected, the await promise will throw an error as if there were a throw statement.

The following code:

… is the same as this:

In the real scenario, it will take a while for the promise to throw an error.

You can catch the error by using the try...catch statement, the same way as a regular throw statement:

It’s possible to catch errors caused by one or more await promise ‘s:

In this tutorial, you have learned how to use the JavaScript async / await keyword to write asynchronous code looks like synchronous code.

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The await operator is used to wait for a Promise . It can only be used inside an async function .

Returns the resolved value of the promise, or the value itself if it's not a Promise .

Description

The  await expression causes async function execution to pause, to wait for the Promise 's resolution, and to resume the async function execution when the value is resolved. It then returns the resolved value. If the value is not a Promise , it's converted to a resolved Promise .

If the Promise is rejected, the await expression throws the rejected value.

If a Promise is passed to an await expression, it waits for the Promise 's resolution and returns the resolved value.

If the value is not a Promise , it converts the value to a resolved Promise , and waits for it.

If the Promise is rejected, the rejected value is thrown.

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Posted on Jun 14, 2019 • Updated on Sep 27, 2021

Dealing with Promises In an Array with async/await

Promises and async/await is a welcomed addition to the newer versions of JavaScript. If you are not using it yet and are trapped in the callback hell , you might want to check it out and start using it already. Believe me, it's awesome! The MDN docs would be a good place to start, and CSS-Tricks has a good article on it as well.

But it can be a little bit tricky when using async/await to deal with a collection of promises. Thankfully, here is my cheatsheet for dealing with them, created based on my experience.

p.s. No external libraries! 😉

Now, let's get started! Imagine we have the following asynchronous functions:

1. Wait for all promises to complete with Promise.all

Promise.all accepts an array of promises and returns a new promise that resolves only when all of the promises in the array have been resolved. The promise resolves to an array of all the values that the each of the promise returns.

2. Wait for at least one promise to complete with Promise.race

Promise.race accepts an array of promises and returns a new promise that resolves immediately when one of the promises in the array have been resolved, with the value from that promise.

3. Wait for all promises to complete one-by-one

The easiest, most straightforward way to achieve this is by using plain old for loops. It is readable and easy to reason about.

Update: The approach below was the original one on the post, but after years of new experience, I've come to realize that this unnecessarily complicates things, and I was just hacking reduce to behave like a for loop. Advice: Just use for loops for this. Still keeping it here if you're interested

There's no native methods on Promise class that can do this quickly, but we can make use of Array.prototype.reduce method to achieve the goal.

This is less straight-forward than the previous implementations, but I am going to write a separate post to explain this. Let's keep this post just for quick cheatsheets 😉.

4. Run async functions batch-by-batch, with each batch of functions executed in parallel

This is really helpful if you want to avoid hitting the rate limit of some API service. This makes use of the same concept in #3, where we have an array of promises resolved sequentially, combined with a two-dimensional array of promises and the use of Promise.all .

The key here is to build the collection of async functions in a two-dimensional array first. Once we have that, we can iterate over each collection of async functions and execute them in parallel, and use Promise.all to wait for each of those functions to complete. Until all of the promises in the current batch resolve, we are not going to process the next batch.

Update: Again, the approach below was the original one on the post, but after years of new experience, I've come to realize that this unnecessarily complicates things, and I was just hacking reduce to behave like a for loop. Advice: Just use for loops for this. Still keeping it here if you're interested

Here's the full implementation of the above concept:

Keep in mind that I'm building the batches of async functions through hard-coding here. In a real application, you might have a dynamic length of array returned from an API call or the likes, so you will have to split them yourselves. A quick implementation for this task:

Or, you can also opt for libraries such as lodash to help you with this task.

5. Bonus Tip: Do not pass an async function to forEach

Remember, the difference between Array.prototype.map and Array.prototype.forEach is that the latter does not return the result of each iteration. If we pass async functions to forEach , we have no way of retrieving the returned promise to do anything useful with it. Unless you want to fire the async function and forget about it, passing async functions to forEach is never something you want to do.

There you go! That is all 5 cheatsheets on what to do and not to do with an array of Promises. I hope this has been useful to you all 😁, and please, please, let me know in the comments section if there's anything I ought to improve upon.

See you again!

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You forget about for await to run async functions one-by-one

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An added bonus is that you can easily break or return based on the result of each function, if you had to.

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Hi Afif, thanks for the post, it was helpful. With help from a user on Reddit, there's another entry you might want to add, "async pools". If it's useful, please copy anything you want from this public gist: gist.github.com/jzohrab/a6701d0087...

Cheers and regards! jz

Thanks! That's interesting. Definitely faster than just processing promises one-by-one.

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Thanks for great post @afif Sohaili.

I'm new to javascript but not new to programming. I was interested in the "Complete async tasks in sequence" method using reduce as you describe. In the spirit of "DRY", I immediately wanted to encapsulate it:

which then gives us the re-usable "sequencer" which takes as parameters:

  • An array of values which are passed to each task in the sequence.
  • A function returning a promise to be applied to each of the above.
  • A function to be executed for each result.

which means we can do this:

Does this look like sound javascript?

I can't help thinking the resolveInNSeconds function could be a bit simpler?

Sorry I hadn't come and check this often enough and missed it. Yes, you can abstract those however you'd like to make it more readable, and functions are something you can toss around in JavaScript.

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Thanks for this. When you write the "explainer" article for number 3, please contrast it with an old-school for loop. I'm interested to see if your opinion changes!

Hi, I just googled for it, and I was mindblown. Definitely will opt for that instead. I didn't know. 😁

This is why I love the comments section!

Edit: I just reread your comment, and 🤔 do you mean the new for await of that came with ES2018?

I did not mean for-await-of, I mean:

Less code, less cognitive overhead!

jsfiddle.net/4umfreak/bkqcymuL/

Yeah, that's definitely a more readable approach. I have to be honest I haven't used for loops in a while so it didn't really occur to me.

@4umfreak updated the code to use plain ol' for-loops. Took me long enough.

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there is a nice lib for promises

bluebirdjs.com/docs/api-reference....

Yep, definitely a great library for Promises. I just felt like most of the time what I need with Promises are already available in ES6+.

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Awesome!! This has helped me a lot refactoring an endpoint in an API that acts as payments cart and was originally implemented using Promise.all. Thank you v.m

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JavaScript is Synchronous in nature which means that it has an event loop that allows you to queue up an action that won’t take place until the loop is available sometime after the code that queued the action has finished executing. But there are a lot of functionalities in our program that make our code Asynchronous and one of them is the Async/Await functionality.

Async/Await is the extension of promises that we get as support in the language.

What is Async Function ?

Async simply allows us to write promises-based code as if it was synchronous and it checks that we are not breaking the execution thread.

Async functions will always return a value. It makes sure that a promise is returned and if it is not returned then JavaScript automatically wraps it in a promise which is resolved with its value.

Example 1: In this example, we will see the basic use of async in JavaScript.

What is Await Function ?

Await function is used to wait for the promise. It could be used within the async block only.

It makes the code wait until the promise returns a result.

Example 2: This example shows the basic use of the await keyword in JavaScript.

Notice that the console prints 2 before the “Hello World” . This is due to the usage of the await keyword. 

The async keyword transforms a regular JavaScript function into an asynchronous function, causing it to return a Promise. The await keyword is used inside an async function to pause its execution and wait for a Promise to resolve before continuing.

Example 3: In this example, we will be implementing several promises in a method, and then that method we will use for displaying our result.

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The browsers supported by Async/Await Function are listed below:

  • Google Chrome 55 and above
  • Firefox 52 and above
  • Apple Safari 10.1 and above
  • Opera 42 and above
  • Edge 14 and above

JavaScript is best known for web page development but it is also used in a variety of non-browser environments. You can learn JavaScript from the ground up by following this JavaScript Tutorial and JavaScript Examples .

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Asynchronous programming has been gaining a lot of traction in the past few years, and for good reason. Although it can be more difficult than the traditional linear style, it is also much more efficient.

For example, instead of waiting for an HTTP request to finish before continuing execution, with Python async coroutines you can submit the request and do other work that's waiting in a queue while waiting for the HTTP request to finish. It might take a bit more thinking to get the logic right, but you'll be able to handle a lot more work with less resources.

Even then, the syntax and execution of asynchronous functions in languages like Python actually aren't that hard. Now, JavaScript is a different story, but Python seems to execute it fairly well.

Asynchronicity seems to be a big reason why Node.js so popular for server-side programming. Much of the code we write, especially in heavy IO applications like websites, depends on external resources. This could be anything from a remote database call to POSTing to a REST service. As soon as you ask for any of these resources, your code is waiting around with nothing to do.

With asynchronous programming, you allow your code to handle other tasks while waiting for these other resources to respond.

An asynchronous function in Python is typically called a 'coroutine', which is just a function that uses the async keyword, or one that is decorated with @asyncio.coroutine . Either of the functions below would work as a coroutine and are effectively equivalent in type:

These are special functions that return coroutine objects when called. If you're familiar with JavaScript Promises, then you can think of this returned object almost like a Promise. Calling either of these doesn't actually run them, but instead a coroutine object is returned, which can then be passed to the event loop to be executed later on.

In case you ever need to determine if a function is a coroutine or not, asyncio provides the method asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(func) that does exactly this for you. Or, if you need to determine if an object returned from a function is a coroutine object, you can use asyncio.iscoroutine(obj) instead.

There are a few ways to actually call a coroutine, one of which is the yield from method. This was introduced in Python 3.3, and has been improved further in Python 3.5 in the form of async/await (which we'll get to later).

The yield from expression can be used as follows:

As you can see, yield from is being used within a function decorated with @asyncio.coroutine . If you were to try and use yield from outside this function, then you'd get error from Python like this:

In order to use this syntax, it must be within another function (typically with the coroutine decorator).

  • Async/await

The newer and cleaner syntax is to use the async/await keywords. Introduced in Python 3.5, async is used to declare a function as a coroutine, much like what the @asyncio.coroutine decorator does. It can be applied to the function by putting it at the front of the definition:

To actually call this function, we use await , instead of yield from , but in much the same way:

Again, just like yield from , you can't use this outside of another coroutine, otherwise you'll get a syntax error.

In Python 3.5, both ways of calling coroutines are supported, but the async/await way is meant to be the primary syntax.

  • Running the event loop

None of the coroutine stuff I described above will matter (or work) if you don't know how to start and run an event loop . The event loop is the central point of execution for asynchronous functions, so when you want to actually execute the coroutine, this is what you'll use.

The event loop provides quite a few features to you:

  • Register, execute, and cancel delayed calls (asynchronous functions)
  • Create client and server transports for communication
  • Create subprocesses and transports for communication with another program
  • Delegate function calls to a pool of threads

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While there are actually quite a few configurations and event loop types you can use, most of the programs you write will just need to use something like this to schedule a function:

The last three lines are what we're interested in here. It starts by getting the default event loop ( asyncio.get_event_loop() ), scheduling and running the async task, and then closing the loop when the loop is done running.

The loop.run_until_complete() function is actually blocking, so it won't return until all of the asynchronous methods are done. Since we're only running this on a single thread, there is no way it can move forward while the loop is in progress.

Now, you might think this isn't very useful since we end up blocking on the event loop anyway (instead of just the IO calls), but imagine wrapping your entire program in an async function, which would then allow you to run many asynchronous requests at the same time, like on a web server.

You could even break off the event loop in to its own thread, letting it handle all of the long IO requests while the main thread handles the program logic or UI.

Okay, so let's see a slightly bigger example that we can actually run. The following code is a pretty simple asynchronous program that fetches JSON from Reddit, parses the JSON, and prints out the top posts of the day from /r/python, /r/programming, and /r/compsci.

The first method shown, get_json() , is called by get_reddit_top() and just creates an HTTP GET request to the appropriate Reddit URL. When this is called with await , the event loop can then continue on and service other coroutines while waiting for the HTTP response to get back. Once it does, the JSON is returned to get_reddit_top() , gets parsed, and is printed out.

This is a bit different than the sample code we showed earlier. In order to get multiple coroutines running on the event loop, we're using asyncio.ensure_future() and then run the loop forever to process everything.

To run this, you'll need to install aiohttp first, which you can do with PIP:

Now just make sure you run it with Python 3.5 or higher, and you should get an output like this:

Notice that if you run this a few times, the order in which the subreddit data is printed out changes. This is because each of the calls we make releases (yields) control of the thread, allowing another HTTP call to process. Whichever one returns first gets printed out first.

Although Python's built-in asynchronous functionality isn't quite as smooth as JavaScript's, that doesn't mean you can't use it for interesting and efficient applications. Just take 30 minutes to learn its ins and outs and you'll have a much better sense as to how you can integrate this in to your own applications.

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Await Operator (Visual Basic)

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You apply the Await operator to an operand in an asynchronous method or lambda expression to suspend execution of the method until the awaited task completes. The task represents ongoing work.

The method in which Await is used must have an Async modifier. Such a method, defined by using the Async modifier, and usually containing one or more Await expressions, is referred to as an async method .

The Async and Await keywords were introduced in Visual Studio 2012. For an introduction to async programming, see Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await .

Typically, the task to which you apply the Await operator is the return value from a call to a method that implements the Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern , that is, a Task or a Task<TResult> .

In the following code, the HttpClient method GetByteArrayAsync returns getContentsTask , a Task(Of Byte()) . The task is a promise to produce the actual byte array when the operation is complete. The Await operator is applied to getContentsTask to suspend execution in SumPageSizesAsync until getContentsTask is complete. In the meantime, control is returned to the caller of SumPageSizesAsync . When getContentsTask is finished, the Await expression evaluates to a byte array.

For the complete example, see Walkthrough: Accessing the Web by Using Async and Await . You can download the sample from the .NET Sample Browser . The example code is in the SerialAsyncExample project.

If Await is applied to the result of a method call that returns a Task(Of TResult) , the type of the Await expression is TResult. If Await is applied to the result of a method call that returns a Task , the Await expression doesn't return a value. The following example illustrates the difference.

An Await expression or statement does not block the thread on which it is executing. Instead, it causes the compiler to sign up the rest of the async method, after the Await expression, as a continuation on the awaited task. Control then returns to the caller of the async method. When the task completes, it invokes its continuation, and execution of the async method resumes where it left off.

An Await expression can occur only in the body of an immediately enclosing method or lambda expression that is marked by an Async modifier. The term Await serves as a keyword only in that context. Elsewhere, it is interpreted as an identifier. Within the Async method or lambda expression, an Await expression cannot occur in a query expression, in the Catch or Finally block of a Try…Catch…Finally statement , in the loop control variable expression of a For or For Each loop, or in the body of a SyncLock statement.

Most async methods return a Task or Task<TResult> . The properties of the returned task carry information about its status and history, such as whether the task is complete, whether the async method caused an exception or was canceled, and what the final result is. The Await operator accesses those properties.

If you await a task-returning async method that causes an exception, the Await operator rethrows the exception.

If you await a task-returning async method that is canceled, the Await operator rethrows an OperationCanceledException .

A single task that is in a faulted state can reflect multiple exceptions. For example, the task might be the result of a call to Task.WhenAll . When you await such a task, the await operation rethrows only one of the exceptions. However, you can't predict which of the exceptions is rethrown.

For examples of error handling in async methods, see Try...Catch...Finally Statement .

The following Windows Forms example illustrates the use of Await in an async method, WaitAsynchronouslyAsync . Contrast the behavior of that method with the behavior of WaitSynchronously . Without an Await operator, WaitSynchronously runs synchronously despite the use of the Async modifier in its definition and a call to Thread.Sleep in its body.

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How to use "await" in godot 4.0 ?

As it’s already changed from “yield” , don’t really know how to use “await” now…

(still the help page hasn’t had the introduction…)

You mean You used yield() before and await() is different ? If only name of method has changed I can help

Inces | 2022-02-18 14:14

right, the usage of “await” is not the same as “yield”

linyangqi | 2022-02-19 01:12

Where “timeout” is the signal you are waiting for.

yield could be used to stop a method, and then continue where it left off. can you not do that with await? await seems like it will just retrigger the same method starting from the beginning.

WolframR | 2022-07-17 05:20

FYI, this example is a bit misleading - waiting for 1000 waits for 1000 seconds! You want to wait for 1.0 (one second) instead.

nightblade9 | 2023-03-21 16:15

Thanks, I corrected accordingly!

Christian Baune | 2023-03-21 16:21

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