Promise versus async/await

Published: Friday, Apr 7, 2017 Last modified: Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024

Promise

var contrived = { count: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1   }
console.log(contrived)

let myFirstPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
if (contrived.count > 0) {
	fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip")
	.then(function (res) { return res.json() })
	.then((json) => { Object.assign(contrived, json)
					  resolve(contrived) })
} else {
	console.log("here")
	resolve(contrived)
}
})

myFirstPromise.then(console.log)

Async / Await

const outerContrived = {
  count: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1,
}
console.log('Before', outerContrived)

const goget = async function(contrived) {
  console.log('in goget', contrived)

  if (contrived.count > 0) {
	const response = await fetch('https://httpbin.org/ip')
	const json = await response.json()
	Object.assign(contrived, json)
  } else {
	console.log(contrived.count)
  }
}

goget(outerContrived)

console.log('After', outerContrived)