[andrewzah]

This is something I ran into recently when learning about promises and async functions in javsscript. It took me a while to grok it, and I'm still not sure if I fully understand it, but we settled on using try/catch blocks with typescript's await keyword on calls we need to block on.

I wanted to use @usefultools/monads to have Maybe types, etc, but it's easier to just stick with promises throughout the chain. Essentially working with functions that return promises (like database calls with Mongoose) makes you convert your functions to also use promises. As far as I can tell there's no way to unwrap a promise (similar to Rust) without the await keyword inside a try block.

I don't know if this is exactly the best approach, but it's significantly less verbose than .then().catch() callbacks. I also learned about Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled() recently here [0].

I wish I could stick to futures with Rust or goroutines with golang. Bleh.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223881