What are the differences between callbacks, promises, async/await? Aren't they essentially the same?
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What are the differences between callbacks, promises, async/await? Aren't they essentially the same?

Publish Date: Nov 4 '20
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  • Fernando B 🚀
    Fernando B 🚀Nov 4, 2020

    They're not the same, promises tried to make callbacks easier to chain. Then async/await tried to make promises even easier, by adding syntactic sugar. Essentially all deal with asynchronous code.

  • Pankaj Tanwar
    Pankaj TanwarNov 5, 2020

    dev.to/pankajtanwarbanna/explain-t...

    Hope it helps.

  • shadowtime2000
    shadowtime2000Nov 5, 2020

    async/await is essentially easier promises.

    const foo = async (num) => num + 1;
// Is the same as
const foo = (num) => Promise.resolve(num + 1);
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    With the difference between Promises/async/await and callbacks, callbacks are less readable.

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