How to catch errors with async await

Published: August 13, 2019

You could always wrap the await inside a try catch

const getData = async (url) => {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(url)
    return await response.json()
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err)
  }
  return null
}

But I like this approach better.

const getData = async (url) => {
  const response = await fetch(url).catch((err) => console.error(err))
  if (response) {
    return await response.json()
  }
}

And if you need to do more when you catch the error, you could always just pass your method .catch(handleError)