# Promise.try() — Description

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You may have an API that takes a callback. The callback may be synchronous or asynchronous. You want to handle everything uniformly by wrapping the result in a promise. The most straightforward way might be {{jsxref("Promise/resolve", "Promise.resolve(func())")}}. The problem is that if func() synchronously throws an error, this error would not be caught and turned into a rejected promise.

The common approach (lifting a function call result into a promise, fulfilled or rejected) often looks like this

But Promise.try() is more helpful here

For the built-in Promise() constructor, errors thrown from the executor are automatically caught and turned into rejections, so these two approaches are mostly equivalent, except that Promise.try() is more concise and readable.

Note that Promise.try() is _not_ equivalent to this, despite being highly similar

The difference is that the callback passed to {{jsxref("Promise/then", "then()")}} is always called asynchronously, while the executor of the Promise() constructor is called synchronously. Promise.try also calls the function synchronously, and resolves the promise immediately if possible.

Promise.try(), combined with {{jsxref("Promise/catch", "catch()")}} and {{jsxref("Promise/finally", "finally()")}}, can be used to handle both synchronous and asynchronous errors in a single chain, and make promise error handling appear almost like synchronous error handling.

Like {{domxref("Window/setTimeout", "setTimeout()")}}, Promise.try() accepts extra arguments that are passed to the callback. This means instead of doing this

Which are equivalent, but the latter avoids creating an extra closure and is more efficient.

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