Advanced Node.js Development

Async/await basics

In this section, you're finally going to get to use the new async/await functionality. We're going to create an alternative version of the getStatus function and call it getStatusAlt, so we can go ahead and actually define that: a const getStatusAlt. Now, it's still going to be a function, so we're going to start off by creating an arrow function (=>). We're still going to take in an argument, so we'll define that userId:

const getStatusAlt = (userId) => { };

Now, though, we're going to switch things up. Instead of working through the old example, we're going to use the new async/await functionality. To explore this, let's temporarily comment out the getStatus-then and catch block code. We'll be recreating it with a call ...