Futures: await vs unawaited vs ignore

When you call a method that returns a Future, you have a decision to make:

• use await (most common)
• use unawaited
• use ignore

This decision affects how the code is executed when the Future throws, so make sure you understand each case well.

Here’s an explanation. 👇

Here are some resources where you can learn more:

• Asynchrony support
• unawaited function and the unawaited_futures lint
• ignore method

Happy coding!