Daniel Herr Reporter
	Description • 8 years ago

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: New Documentation
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

Async Functions/Await is being implemented in all major browsers and has transpiler support, but does not have MDN docs.

	Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]
	Comment 1 • 8 years ago

will add reference pages in bug 1185106.

	Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]
	Comment 2 • 8 years ago

Added references:
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/async_function
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/AsyncFunction
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/AsyncFunction/prototype
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/await

now, guide will need some content for async:
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide

may be next to Promise
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Control_flow_and_error_handling#Promises
or perhaps separated page like Generator
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Iterators_and_Generators

	Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)
	Comment 3 • 8 years ago

Thanks a lot, arai! Reviewed the reference docs.
I agree that the guide pages you mention in comment 2 make sense. We still need to update/create these pages.

There is also this hacks blog post as an additional resource: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/asyncawait-arrive-in-firefox/

	BMO Automation
	Comment 4 • 4 years ago

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.