Question

What's the output?

async function getData() {
  return await Promise.resolve('I made it!');
}

const data = getData();
console.log(data);

• A: "I made it!"
• B: Promise {<resolved>: "I made it!"}
• C: Promise {<pending>}
• D: undefined

Answer 1

Answer: C

An async function always returns a promise. The await still has to wait for the promise to resolve: a pending promise gets returned when we call getData() in order to set data equal to it.

If we wanted to get access to the resolved value "I made it", we could have used the .then() method on data:

data.then(res => console.log(res))

This would've logged "I made it!"