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async/await support in Firefox

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async/await demo

Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff!

Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, and testing native browser support 😉

Here’s a demo. If your browser supports async/await natively, you will see “YES”.

5 comments on “async/await support in Firefox”

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  1. voracity wrote on

    Hurray! I feel like I’ve been await-ing this a very long time, but now it’s here as Promised!

    (Well, still waiting on node.js to add support by default, presumably in version 8.)

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    1. twitter_icodeforlove wrote on

      I find it odd that browsers are leapfrogging node in terms of implementation/release speed.

      The tables sure have turned, congrats Mozilla.

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      1. Alex wrote on

        The most likely reason nodeJS doesn’t have feature X is because V8 doesn’t have it. It’s the same answer given for why nodeJS doesn’t yet support ES6 modules.

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  2. George wrote on

    Is this real life??

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  3. marco wrote on

    i’d really appreciate to know if i can use async/await to “wait for” a promise, returned by a native messaging app, to be fulfilled…

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