const doSomethingAsync = () => {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    console.log("in doSomethingAsync new Promise")
    setTimeout(() => resolve('I did something'), 1000) // never completes because this promise settles to Rejected
    throw new Error("failure before timeout") // Reject
  })
}

const doSomething = async () => {
  console.log("doSomething")

  try {
    let r = await doSomethingAsync()
    console.log("r", r)
  } catch (e) {
    // This error is caught because its wrapping an await
    // for fun we rethrow it
    console.log("ERROR", e)
    throw e
  }
}

console.log('before')
try {
  doSomething().catch((e) => {
    // catch does work here because since it was not an await it just returned the promise
    // and as such we can catch the promise this way
    console.log("ERROR3", e)
  })
} catch (e) {
  // this error is not caught because `doSomething` was not put in await
  console.log("ERROR2", e)
}
console.log('after')