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What do you understand by async and await.

Nishi Tiwari127618-Jun-2020
Please describe me in details what is async and await and when it is use with suitable images.
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Updated on 18-Jun-2020
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I am a currently pursuing Bca from United Institute of Management. Want to become software developer.

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Nishi Tiwari

Nishi Tiwari

18-Jun-2020

1. when should we use await?

We should use await before the async function call.

2. When should I use async?

We mark a function as an async one so that it can be called with the await keyword.

OR

1. We can use await with any function that returns a promise. The function which we are awaiting doesn't need to be async necessarily.

2. We should use async functions when we want to use the await keyword inside that function. If we are not gonna be using the await keyword inside a function then we don't need to make that function async.

3. async functions by default return a promise. That is the reason that we are able to await async functions.

  • Whenever an async function called, it always returns a Promise. 
  • As far as our code it could be written like this - 
const getUsers = (ms) => { // There is no  need to make this async
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
};
// the function is async as you  need to use await inside it
export const  inindex = async (req, res) => {
    await getUsers(5000);
    res.json([
      {
        id: 1,
        name: 'John Doe',
      },
      { id: 2,
        name: 'Jane Doe',
      },
    ]);
};

We can await any promise in an async function. The code after the await will be executed after the promise that we are awaiting finished.

This is a great alternative to the JavaScript callbacks.

  • The new async/await syntax allows us to still use Promises, but it mainly eliminates the needs for providing a callback to the chained then() methods.
  • This callback , instead of returning directly from the asynchronous function, just like if it were a synchronous blocking function. 
let value = await myPromisifiedFunction();
  • When we are planning to use await in our function we should mark our function with async keyword (like in c#)

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