RiverMar 17

Wow so it turns out I was right, Javascript is a gross language that is impossible to read for anybody who isn't already familiar with its syntax.

I come from C/C++ and Python land when it comes to network request stuff, and I'm accustomed to code just executing one line after another. I can get used to the async stuff, but it's pretty damn frustrating that VS Code doesn't even have any indications to tell you when a function is going to be async or not.

There's also seemingly no immediately clean way to just say "don't continue, everything after this is going to rely on the result of this function".

Maybe I'm just bitching because I don't understand how await and Promises work.

#webdev #JS #html #async #raceCondition #programming

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@riverpunk > There's also seemingly no immediately clean way to just say "don't continue, everything after this is going to rely on the result of this function".

Have a look to Promise.all and Promise.allSettled
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise/all

or await for one promise

Promise.all() - JavaScript | MDN

The Promise.all() static method takes an iterable of promises as input and returns a single Promise. This returned promise fulfills when all of the input's promises fulfill (including when an empty iterable is passed), with an array of the fulfillment values. It rejects when any of the input's promises rejects, with this first rejection reason.

MDN Web Docs
Mar 17 at 6:42amWeb