Bret Cameron is a software engineer and the creator of Sight Reader, a browser-based tool for learning piano sight reading. He writes at bretcameron.com.
In JavaScript, there are two main ways to handle asynchronous code: then/catch (ES6) and async/await (ES7). These syntaxes give us the same underlying functionality, but they affect readability and scope in different ways. In this article, Bret Cameron will show you how one syntax lends itself to maintainable code, while the other puts us on the road to callback hell!
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