JavaScript · Junior · Question 35 of 75

Why won't `catch` catch the error?

try {
  fetch("/api").then(r => { throw new Error("fail"); });
} catch (e) {
  console.log("caught");
}

✓Correct answer: The error happens later, asynchronously, after try has already finished
2try/catch can't catch Error objects at all
3fetch automatically swallows all errors inside .then

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The try block ran synchronously and finished before the server responded. Errors in the chain are caught with .catch(), or by writing await fetch(...) inside try in an async function - then catch works.

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