Discussion on: Gotchas about async/await and Promises

I switch between async/await and plain promises often. I also mix await with .catch()

Some code gets simpler with await, especially when I need to mix results of multiple promises and following requests are based on the results of the last ones.

const user = await getUser();
const posts = await getPosts(user.id);
return posts.map(p => ({...p, author: user.name});

Some code gets simpler with plain promises, like parallelisation. When I need to retrieve the data of multiple views in one screen I often drop them off as promise and then the result into the views when they arrive.

this.setState({docsLoading: true, foldersLoading: true});
getDocs().then(docs => this.setState({docs, docsLoading: false}));
getFolders().then(folders => this.setState({folders, foldersLoading: false}));