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Are you sure? From what I can find, async [0] causes a function to a return a promise, which then returns the result. Await [1] takes a promise, and waits for it to either be resolved or rejected.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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> and waits for it

Yes but that doesn’t mean other lines of code can’t be executing while waiting. The waiting isn’t truly blocking the entire application. Plenty of other things can be happening.

Sure, but the next line of the function awaiting the result can't execute while waiting.

from your first link: "... , async/await is similar to combining generators and promises."

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