Many developers are under the misconception that if they add async before their function definition, return a promise, and use a .then or await on that promise, their code will be non-blocking…

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Async-Await and Promises Guarantee Asynchronous Code? No (and Here’s Why) This article busts this myth with a few examples and tells you when your code is truly asynchronous and non-blocking. JavaScript is single-threaded.

Does Async-Await and Promises Guarantee Asynchronous Code? No (and Here’s Why)

<p>Async Await and Promises were never meant to solve Asynchronous issues. It was basically and technically created to solve the callback hell issue. Javascript is a synchronous and non-multithreaded programming language. Node.js is Multithreaded because it has c++ in its base.</p>
