Working with Async/Await

Leaving out one word in the code below produces a compiler error. The fetchUser function here is the one from the previous lesson, and it returns a Promise<User>.

async function showUserName() {
  const user = fetchUser(1);
  console.log(user.name);
}

error TS2339: Property 'name' does not exist on type 'Promise<User>'.

The variable user holds a promise and not a user, and a promise has no name property. The missing word is await, and adding it changes the type of the expression to User:

async function showUserName() {