Why are empty catch blocks a mistake in Node.js?
Because they swallow errors, hiding bugs. Always log or handle errors in catch, even if you rethrow. Swallowed errors make debugging impossible, since you never see what went wrong and the failure is silent.
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Because you did not handle the rejection. Always use try/catch with async/await, or .catch with promises. In newer Node.js versions, unhandled rejections crash the process, so add a global unhandled rejection handler as a safety net.
You get a pending promise instead of the result. The next code runs before the operation completes, causing subtle bugs. Always await async calls when you need the result, or the code after it runs prematurely.
Because sequential await runs operations one after another, while Promise.all runs them in parallel. For multiple independent I/O-bound operations, Promise.all is often much faster since the operations run concurrently.
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