--- title: Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises description: Async/await is awesome, but don’t abandon Promises. The reason why this works deserves its own article, but here is an awesome explainer. For the die-hard... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/async-await-is-awesome-but-don-t-abandon-promises-e1tbt0gva twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises | daily.dev og:description: Async/await is awesome, but don’t abandon Promises. The reason why this works deserves its own article, but here is an awesome explainer. For the die-hard... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/async-await-is-awesome-but-don-t-abandon-promises-e1tbt0gva og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E1TbT0gva.png og:image:alt: Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises **[JSK](https://daily.dev/sources/jsk)** · [@suhanw](https://daily.dev/suhanw) · 4 min read · 42 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Async/await is awesome, but don’t abandon Promises. The reason why this works deserves its own article, but here is an awesome explainer. For the die-hard async / await fans out there, I learned (literally on the day of writing this story) that the following snippet actually does the same thing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dailydev\_tango** · 2 upvotes > The title here could have been re-written as don't execute sync logic before async logic if your async function doesn't care about your sync. > > Glad the author did update to include the last section. **@alfreddagenais** · 1 upvotes > Thanks very interesting **@danyeldev** · 1 upvotes > cool! --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/async-await-is-awesome-but-don-t-abandon-promises-e1tbt0gva) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Async/await is awesome, but don't abandon Promises","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/async-await-is-awesome-but-don-t-abandon-promises-e1tbt0gva","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/async-await-is-awesome-but-don-t-abandon-promises-e1tbt0gva"},"datePublished":"2020-11-16T13:29:06.267Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Async/await is awesome, but don’t abandon Promises. 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