JavaScript Async/Await Pitfalls With ForEach
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2 min readFeb 26, 2021
A common pitfall in JavaScript is the usage of async/await in combination with forEach. Let’s look at an example with a simple asynchronous function (asyncPrint) that prints a value to the console. Say we want to call it sequentially for every value in an array via forEach:
