I scratched my head for awhile when switching from promises to await/async. Hopefully this post helps you not need to scratch yours! 😀 Async/await is the same as using promises. It’s just syntactical sugar to make it look synchronous. The javascript engine sees the “await”…

When not specified, much of this knowledge comes from Java Script Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov, and the JavaScript Pocket Reference (3rd Edition) by David Flanagan.  I personally found the JavaScript Pocket Reference to be the most valuable of the two. This is by no means…