Node.js revolutionized backend development, but the evolution of asynchronous JavaScript brought along some nasty anti-patterns. We moved from callback hell straight into try/catch hell.
When you have a controller method that needs to make three different database queries and two external API calls, wrapping every single `await` in its own `try/catch` block makes the code unreadable. The alternative—wrapping the entire block in one giant `try/catch`—often obscures exactly which promise failed.
This frustration led me to create and publish `safe-await-tuple` on npm. By utilizing a Go-inspired error handling pattern (returning an array with the error as the first element and the data as the second), you can keep your asynchronous code completely flat and immensely readable. It is a small utility, but it fundamentally cleans up backend logic.