Sure - I don't think anything is really an absolute in programming, and depending on the use case there are all sorts of ways to structure this. But in general

Sure - I don't think anything is really an absolute in programming, and depending on the use case there are all sorts of ways to structure this. But in general, if you're making a contract where a promise might reject and using await, you need to be wrapping that code in a try/catch somewhere. That's the dealio with async/await and promises: you're trading the callback .then().catch() format for try{ await ... }catch(){}. If you don't want to use try/catch - you need to be making a contract where the failure is not a rejection but an error object. If you want to use rejections, you need to be catching them (in one form or another).