better-async-await.macro 🎣

Write better async await and avoid the try catch statement

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Installation with CRA < 2.0

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-macros better-async-await.macro

or

yarn add babel-plugin-macros better-async-await.macro --dev

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["babel-plugin-macros"]
}

Installation with CRA >= 2.0

npm install --save-dev better-async-await.macro

or

yarn add better-async-await.macro --dev

⭐ Usage

import betterAsyncAwait from 'better-async-await.macro';

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await betterAsyncAwait(api.getData(5));
  if(err) handleError();
  // else do something with the response
}

Demo

Codesandbox

Motivation and Idea

This babel macro is to use this plugin babel-plugin-better-async-await with CRA or any app which in any way relies on @babel/env or on the order of plugins or presets.

In async/await functions we often use try/catch blocks to catch errors.

For example:-

async function completeApplicationFlow() {
  // wait for get session status api to check the status
  let response;
  try {
    response = await getSessionStatusApi();
  } catch(err) {
    // if error show a generic error message
    return handleError(err);
  }

  // wait for getting next set of questions api
  try {
    response = await getNextQuestionsApi();
  } catch(err) {
    // if error show a generic error message
    return handleError(err);
  }

  // finally submit application
  try {
    response = await submitApplication();
  } catch(err) {
    // if error show a generic error message
    return handleError(err);
  }
}

Approach with this macro and different way of doing this could be:-

import betterAsyncAwait from 'better-async-await.macro';

async function completeApplicationFlow() {
  // wait for get session status api to check the status
  let err, response;
  // wait for get session status api to check the status
  [err, response] = await betterAsyncAwait(getSessionStatusApi());
  // if error show a generic error message
  if (err) return handleError(err);
  // call getNextQuestion Api
  [err, response] = await betterAsyncAwait(getNextQuestionsApi());
  // if error show a generic error message
  if (err) return handleError(err);
  // finally submit application
  [err, response] = await betterAsyncAwait(this.submitApplication());
  if (err) return handleError(err);
}

⚡️ The problem solved

Using this babel macro you could write async await in the alternate approach mentioned above. We will transform your async await code so that it works the [err, resp] way.

📒 Examples of using it in your code

Before

async function test() {
  let resp;
  try {
    resp = await api.getData(5);
  } catch(err)
    handleError();
  }
}

After

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await betterAsyncAwait(api.getData(5));
  if(err) handleError();
  // else do something with the response
}

Before

async function test() {
  let resp;
  try {
    resp = await getData;
  } catch(err)
    handleError();
  }
}

function getData() {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(true);
    }, 1000);
  });
}

After

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await betterAsyncAwait(getData);
  if(err) handleError();
  // else do something with the response
}

function getData() {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(true);
    }, 1000);
  });
}

Before

async function test() {
  let resp;
  try {
    resp = await fetch('http://some-rest-endpoint');
  } catch(err)
    handleError();
  }
}

After

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await betterAsyncAwait(fetch('http://some-rest-endpoint'));
  if(err) handleError();
  // else do something with the response
}

📒 Babel Tranformation

In

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await betterAsyncAwait(fetch('http://some-rest-endpoint'));
}

Out

async function test() {
  const [err, resp] = await fetch('http://some-rest-endpoint').then(resp => {
    return [null, resp];
  }).catch(error => {
    return [error];
  })
}

👍 Contribute

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📝 License

MIT © viveknayyar

👷 TODO

• Complete README
• Add Examples and Demo
• Test Suite