TL;DR
See it in action on https://stackblitz.com/edit/typescript-x5fftj
GitHub repo on https://github.com/laurilubi/typescript-async-promise-errorhandling

Basically async is sugar for Promise but it also simplifies while debugging.

javascript

All the statements below are also true for javascript. Typescript gets compiled into javascript.

Nesting

All the statements below work regardless how deep your function calls (stacktrace) are. Eg function A calls function B which calls function C.

throw vs reject()

Thanks to language interpreter throw and reject()are converted automatically to what is needed. But for clarity I use:

• throw in async functions
• reject() in methods that return a Promise

return is useful for avoiding the execution of the following lines.

But in case you do not break for any reason, only the first resolve() or reject() has effect.

try-catch with async

The execution of an async or Promise-function happens in the future, basically when there is nothing else to do currently. Therefore the exceptions that occur in the async or Promise-function happen after the execution has passed the try-catch block. To handle that:

• use await if you are in an async block and are calling an async function
• otherwise use .then() and .catch()