1. Async Functions and Promises
Async functions act as syntactic sugar that wraps the function's code and returns a promise resolving with the function's return value.
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What does an async function returns and why? So, basically, async await is just a syntax sugar for promises. And whenever you write a sync in front of a function, it will basically wrap that code in a promise and return a promise that will resolve with the return of that function. So, whenever you have an async function, that function will return a promise that will end up resolving with whatever the return of that function is.