Async/Await in JavaScript: Writing Cleaner Asynchronous Code

Short summary

Async/await is syntactic sugar over Promises that lets you write asynchronous JavaScript as if it were synchronous. The `async` keyword makes a function return a Promise, while `await` pauses execution until that Promise resolves, returning the actual value. Error handling uses try/catch instead of .catch() chains, making async code cleaner and more readable.

• •async functions automatically return Promises; await unwraps them
• •await pauses only the async function, not the entire program
• •try/catch replaces .catch() for familiar error handling

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