# is-async-function

> Determine if a function is a native async function.

Latest version **2.1.1** (published 2025-01-23) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install is-async-function
pnpm add is-async-function
yarn add is-async-function
bun add is-async-function
```

## Health

**Score 50/100 (C)** — status: stable.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads.

Negative: stale.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.1 |
| Published | 2025-01-23 |
| First published | 2015-06-05 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >= 0.4 |
| Dependencies | 5 |
| Unpacked size | 22.8 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 18 |
| Author | Jordan Harband |
| Maintainers | ljharb, tunnckocore |
| Keywords | async, async function, es6, es2015, yield, function, function* |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-async-function
- Repository: https://github.com/inspect-js/is-async-function
- Homepage: https://github.com/inspect-js/is-async-function#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/inspect-js/is-async-function/issues
- Funding: https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/is-async-function

## Dependencies (5)

- [get-proto](https://npm.io/package/get-proto.md) ^1.0.1
- [call-bound](https://npm.io/package/call-bound.md) ^1.0.3
- [async-function](https://npm.io/package/async-function.md) ^1.0.0
- [has-tostringtag](https://npm.io/package/has-tostringtag.md) ^1.0.2
- [safe-regex-test](https://npm.io/package/safe-regex-test.md) ^1.1.0

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## Recent versions

- 2.1.1 (latest) — 2025-01-23
- 2.1.0 — 2025-01-02
- 2.0.0 — 2022-04-12
- 1.3.0 — 2020-01-15
- 1.2.4 — 2020-01-15
- 1.2.3 — 2017-03-11
- 1.2.2 — 2016-10-29
- 1.2.1 — 2016-10-27
- 1.2.0 — 2016-10-27
- 1.1.5 — 2016-09-21
- 1.1.4 — 2016-09-21
- 1.1.3 — 2016-04-21
- 1.1.2 — 2016-03-18
- 1.1.1 — 2016-03-18
- 1.1.0 — 2015-06-24
- … 2 more at https://npm.io/package/is-async-function/versions

## README

# is-async-function <sup>[![Version Badge][2]][1]</sup>

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Is this a native `async function`?

## Example

```js
var isAsyncFunction = require('is-async-function');
assert(!isAsyncFunction(function () {}));
assert(!isAsyncFunction(null));
assert(!isAsyncFunction(function* () { yield 42; return Infinity; }));
assert(isAsyncFunction(async function () {}));
```

## Tests
Simply clone the repo, `npm install`, and run `npm test`

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