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Last Updated: 2024-05-03
If you need access to an attribute on something async, use parentheses in order to avoid being surprised by precedence. Await has a lower precedence than member access
// Incorrectly returned false when `success` was true
const apiTokenIsValid = await api.validateApiToken()?.success;
// this worked
const apiTokenIsValid = (await api.validateApiToken())?.success;