Express JS use async function on requests

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async..await is syntactic sugar for promises, and a promise is just a pattern that relies on callbacks. The use of async functions is acceptable wherever they are supported by the environment. async..await is supported since Node.js 7.6.0.

async function always returns a promise. As long as this implicit return value doesn’t cause problems, it’s perfectly fine everywhere, including Express. It doesn’t matter whether it’s used for database queries or anything else.

Unless API supports promises, errors should be entirely handled in async function. Function body should be wrapped with try..catch to rule out unhandled rejections which may result in exceptions in future Node versions.

The original code contains no next calls and just suppresses an error. As a rule of thumb, async middleware should be structured like that:

app.use(async function(req, res, next) {
    try {
        ...
        next();
    } catch (error) {
        next(error);
    }
});

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