Async and Await

The keywords async and await are special syntax for working with promises.

A function marked as async always returns a Promise — if we return a non-promise value, it's automatically wrapped in Promise.resolve.

Within the function, we can use await to wait for a promise to be resolved or rejected and access its value.

The main advantage of this syntax is that we don't introduce deeply nested callback chains. However, all the complexity of asynchronous programming is still here, even if the syntax looks nicer.