--- title: How to Use Async/Await to Write Better JavaScript Code description: Learn Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await in JS by Making Ice Cream. Joy Shaheb is the author of the popular JavaScript tutorial series, The Async Cauldron.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-async-await-to-write-better-javascript-code-spon9ss9p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Use Async/Await to Write Better JavaScript Code | daily.dev og:description: Learn Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await in JS by Making Ice Cream. Joy Shaheb is the author of the popular JavaScript tutorial series, The Async Cauldron.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-async-await-to-write-better-javascript-code-spon9ss9p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/spon9Ss9p.png og:image:alt: How to Use Async/Await to Write Better JavaScript Code 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. # How to Use Async/Await to Write Better JavaScript Code **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@milindsoorya](https://daily.dev/milindsoorya) · 5 min read · 103 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Learn Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await in JS by Making Ice Cream. Joy Shaheb is the author of the popular JavaScript tutorial series, The Async Cauldron. She is also the co-founder of the AsyncCauldron.com. ## 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. **@jctechdev** · 3 upvotes > I love its relevance to what I am trying to master this time. **@straze** · 2 upvotes > Thinking about the amount of function that I writted with return new Promise(........ instead of just using the async keyword. 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