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atombender on Aug 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Async/Await will make code simpler

Rejection is turned into an exception with "await", though. And rejection is perfectly normal with, say, network I/O.

raspie on Aug 22, 2017 [–]

Well yes, that's a reasonable use case. Personally I'm not convinced that all 4xx responses should be rejections, but regardless of that, you should have about as many `catch` blocks with async-await as you have with promises.

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