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// 🔥 Node 7.6 has async/await! Here is a quick run down on how async/await works

const axios = require('axios'); // promised based requests - like fetch()

function getCoffee() {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve('☕'), 2000); // it takes 2 seconds to make coffee
  });
}

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/// EXAMPLE 1

function resolveAfter2Seconds() {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve('resolved');
    }, 2000);
  });
}

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/**
 * wraps a promise in a timeout, allowing the promise to reject if not resolve with a specific period of time
 * @param {integer} ms - milliseconds to wait before rejecting promise if not resolved
 * @param {Promise} promise to monitor
 * @Example
 *  promiseTimeout(1000, fetch('https://courseof.life/johndoherty.json'))
 *      .then(function(cvData){
 *          alert(cvData);
 *      })
 *      .catch(function(){