safe-await is a tiny helper for making async control flow easier to read.
Instead of wrapping every awaited call in its own try/catch block, it returns a tuple-style result that makes the success and error paths explicit.
Small utilities like this reduce repeated code and make common JavaScript patterns easier to reuse consistently across projects.
Full documentation, synced from the package README:
Safely use async/await without all the try catch blocks
[error, data] promise signaturesconst safeAwait = require('safe-await')
async function fooBar() {
const [error, data] = await safeAwait(promiseOne())
if (error) {
// handle error, retry, ignore, whatever
}
console.log(data)
}See usage and tests for more examples.
You can invert the error and data return values by passing true as the second argument.
const safeAwait = require('safe-await')
async function fooBar() {
const invert = true
const [data, error] = await safeAwait(promiseOne(), invert)
if (error) {
// handle error, retry, ignore, whatever
}
console.log(data)
}Alternatively, you can use the safeInverse function.
const { safeInverse } = require('safe-await')
async function fooBar() {
const [data, error] = await safeInverse(promiseOne())
if (error) {
// handle error, retry, ignore, whatever
}
console.log(data)
}