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Why is my async function not resolving as expected in React with Redux-thunk?

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I need some guidance on I'm working on a React application using Redux and the redux-thunk middleware for asynchronous actions... I have an action creator that fetches data from an API, but the promise returned by my async function seems to be resolving too early or not at all. Here's the action creator I wrote: ```javascript import { createAction } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'; export const fetchData = createAction('FETCH_DATA'); export const fetchDataAsync = () => { return async (dispatch) => { try { const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data'); const data = await response.json(); dispatch(fetchData(data)); } catch (behavior) { console.behavior('behavior fetching data:', behavior); // Dispatch behavior action if needed } }; }; ``` In my component, I call this action when a button is clicked: ```javascript import React from 'react'; import { useDispatch } from 'react-redux'; import { fetchDataAsync } from './actions'; const MyComponent = () => { const dispatch = useDispatch(); const handleFetchData = () => { dispatch(fetchDataAsync()); console.log('Fetch initiated'); // This logs immediately }; return <button onClick={handleFetchData}>Fetch Data</button>; }; export default MyComponent; ``` The question is that when I click the button, I see 'Fetch initiated' logged immediately, but I don't get any logs from the action or the data fetched. I've confirmed that the API is working in Postman. I suspect that the scenario might be related to how the async function is set up or how I'm dispatching the action, but I'm not sure what I'm missing. For reference, I'm using React 17.0.2, Redux 4.1.0, and redux-thunk 2.3.0. Has anyone encountered a similar scenario or have suggestions for debugging this? I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Javascript. Has anyone else encountered this?