Console.log doesn't work in async function

Question

I'm trying to log a statement in an async function as follows:

async generateCharts (insights) {
  const { url } = await this.reportsClient.createReport(insights)
  console.log('url from reports', url)
  return this.parse(url)
}

Log statement doesn't show up though, and I'm sure it's because of the async function. Is that correct? Anyway to work around this?

Sandpit

I just ran your code and it works fine. Have you tried forcing createReport to fulfill to verify this? – Isabeau

FYI, async functions are not part of ES6 (ES2015). They will part of thies year's release, ES2017. – Playground

@MikeC looks like that would be the issue! – Sandpit

Answer 1

Your example lacks of context but, IMHO, that's because your createReport function never fulfills. There are no other reasons why the console.log would not get executed.

Mn

Same here. I had two functions with the same name. The second one took priority while I was editing the first one. – Discriminator

Answer 2

Note that errors are swallowed "silently" within an async function – just like inside normal Promises. Unless we add try / catch blocks around await expressions, uncaught exceptions – regardless of whether they were raised in the body of your async function or while its suspended during await – will reject the promise returned by the async function.

javascript-async-await#error-handling

Kaikaia