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Anjali Gurjar
Anjali Gurjar

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could We use async and await with forEach in js

n JavaScript, when working with async and await, it's essential to understand how asynchronous code interacts with loops like forEach.

Key Points About async / await and forEach
forEach is synchronous: The forEach method itself is synchronous, which means it will loop through each element and execute the provided callback function immediately without waiting for any asynchronous operations inside it to finish.

Using async with forEach: If you declare the callback in a forEach loop as async, the asynchronous code inside the loop (like await) will still execute, but the loop won’t wait for each await to resolve before continuing to the next iteration. The result is that the loop may not behave as expected, and promises might not be handled in the order you expect.

Here's an example of what typically happens:

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async function processData() {
const data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];

// Using async in forEach - doesn't work as expected
data.forEach(async (item) => {
console.log('Start:', item);
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000)); // simulate async task
console.log('End:', item);
});

console.log('Finished processing all items');
}

processData();
What Happens in This Code:
forEach doesn’t wait for the await to finish before moving on to the next item.
The console will likely show "Finished processing all items" before any of the "Start" and "End" logs, because the loop continues without waiting for the asynchronous operations to complete.

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