A couple of JavaScript tricks using promise syntax:

1. We can transform a try/catch block into a one-liner (also means `result` return type is inferred properly), 
2. We can transform a `fetch` → `.json` chain into a one-liner

`.then` and `.catch` are still cool (sometimes)!

If you wanna avoid try/catch and are feeling a lil 🦀y, you can write a util to turn the data/error into a tuple. You can squeeze some really good type inference out of it too. E.g.

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Came here to say the same thing. I find it super clean to use something like https://github.com/scopsy/await-to-js, and deal with error cases up front. Shakes that happy path programmer stigma right off.