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Redundant 'await' expression

Reports a redundant usage of await, such as await await, or awaiting a non-promise result.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ES6RedundantAwait
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Async code and promises

When the 'Report for promises' option is selected, suggests removing await before promises when applicable (in return statements, and with Promise.resolve/reject).

Removing await in such contexts causes two problems.

  • Surrounding your code with try-catch and forgetting to add await will change code semantics while you may fail to notice that.

  • Having an explicit await may prevent the V8 runtime from providing async stack traces.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Redundant 'await' expression inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report for promises

Not selected

Last modified: 11 September 2024