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>To correct this a little, the proper way to catch with promises is .catch, not with a try-catch inside a .then - that is an antipattern.

Depends whether you can survive and continue from an exception inside the .then to the next step or not.

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Promises catch exceptions and automatically reject: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... . I've never seen a promise not do this - do you have an example where this is not the case?

As I wrote in depends whether you can survive and continue from an exception inside the .then to the next step or not -- not about how the promise would handle an exception, but whether you want it to handle it or you want to survive and handle it yourself.

e.g, naive example:

  .then(() => {
     var foo;
     try {
          foo = getFoo();
     } catch (err) {
          foo = 10; //some default value
     }
     return foo;
  }).then( (foo) =>

etc.

So you might not want to reject automatically inside then if getFoo raises, but recover and return a default value.

That example could be written:

    .then(getFoo)
    .catch(err => 10) //some default value
    .then( (foo) =>

cool, learned something new

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