JavaScript, async and await keywords

Take a look at the following code and run it.

Let's examine what is going on here:

The async keyword at line 7 means that the function test will always return a promise. Even if the function just executes a simple return 'Hello world'. It will be converted to a promise no matter what. That's why we can use a then at line 14 to print the message.

The await keyword at line 8 means that the code execution will stop until the promise returned by job() is resolved. And the return value from test() is stored in the message variable.

And that's all. It's very simple to understand async and await when you already know how promises work. If you have a hard time understanding this, we can rewrite the test function in plain promise style:

function test() {
    return job().then(function(message) {
        console.log(message);

        return 'Hello world 2';
    });
}