To address your intrigue about the braces around promisify, this article may shed some light:
Oh that's cool. Just tried it in my node REPL and found whatever version of node you get with MacOS is too old (no surprises there though)
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To address your intrigue about the braces around promisify, this article may shed some light:
Object Destructuring in ES6
Sarah Chima
Oh that's cool. Just tried it in my node REPL and found whatever version of node you get with MacOS is too old (no surprises there though)