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Discussion on: Why to use async & await instead of the Promise class?

 
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Marceli-Wac

It's hard to disagree with that. Let me clarify this once again because it seems like I didn't explain what I meant quite clearly in either of those comments.

In my previous experience, especially in the beginning I have struggled to grasp the concept of promises, and using the wrapper syntax of async/await was something that I (incorrectly) settled for, instead of taking my time to study promises. That lead me to believe, that writing the second code (async function with awaited call passed into map) will work in the way identical to that described in the first example. It was the mistake that I have made and couldn't get to the bottom of prior to learning the Promises API and the Promise.all() function.

What I meant to say in my original comment was merely the fact, that awaiting asynchronous calls in async lambda (as passed to the map) does not work the same way as wrapping the array of promises in Promise.all() - hence "different behaviour". Yes, it is the same except for the Promise.all() part, which is what I was trying to illustrate from the start.

I'm sure that the example you just gave will further clarify this for any other readers. Thanks again!