Async Functions

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JavaScript promises were designed to be a low-level utility that could be used behind the scenes by higher-level language features. Async functions are such higher-level language features that make programming with promises more similar to programming without promises. Instead of worrying about tracking promises and their various handlers, async functions abstract away the promises. The end result is code that follows a familiar top-down sequence. Before getting into the details of how async functions work, it helps to understand how they are defined.

Defining async functions

Async functions can be used anywhere synchronous functions can be used. In most cases, all we need to do is add the async keyword before any function or method definition to make it asynchronous.

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