Working with promises inside an if/else

Question

I have a conditional statement in which I need to perform one of two operations, then continue after whichever operation has resolved. So my code currently looks as follows:

Answer 1

Similar to other answers here, but you can self execute the async and clean up the condition a bit.

(async () => {
  const should_do_thing_a = true

  const do_thing_a = function() {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      resolve('a')
    })
  }

  const do_thing_b = function() {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      resolve('b')
    })
  }

  const result = (should_do_thing_a) ? await do_thing_a() : await do_thing_b()

  console.log(result)

})()