A common pattern is to call an async function and return its result:

const helloWorld = async () => {
	return await asyncHello("World");
}

Why the await? It would work exactly the same without it, so it’s just taking up space.

Yes, but: let’s add a try..catch block around it:

try {
	return await asyncHello("World");
}catch(e) {
	return "Whops";
}

It works as expected: if the called function throws an error (rejects its Promise) then the catch block will run.

But now there is a difference:

try {
	return asyncHello("World");
}catch(e) {
	return "Whops";
}

Why didn’t the try..catc