AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.prototype

The same object as AsyncGenerator.prototype. AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.prototype is the technically more accurate name, but AsyncGenerator.prototype appeals to the intuition that it's the prototype of async generator objects.

The prototype property of each AsyncGeneratorFunction instance is an empty object with no properties, whose prototype is AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.prototype. It has the following property attributes:

An async generator function instance has two prototype properties. The first one is its own prototype property. The second one is the prototype property on its prototype, which is AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype. (Remember that every async generator function is an instance of AsyncGeneratorFunction, so it has AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype as its prototype.)

async function* genFunc() {}
const AsyncGeneratorFunctionPrototype = Object.getPrototypeOf(genFunc);
console.log(Object.hasOwn(genFunc, "prototype")); // true
console.log(Object.hasOwn(AsyncGeneratorFunctionPrototype, "prototype")); // true

When an async generator function is called, the async generator function's prototype property becomes the prototype of the returned async generator object.

const gen = genFunc();
const proto = Object.getPrototypeOf;
console.log(proto(gen) === genFunc.prototype); // true
console.log(proto(proto(gen)) === AsyncGeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype); // true

The following diagram illustrates the prototype chain of an async generator function and its instances. Each hollow arrow indicates an inheritance relationship (i.e. a prototype link), and each solid arrow indicates a property relationship. Note that there's no way to access genFunc from gen — they only have an instanceof relationship.

• async function*
• async function* expression
• AsyncGeneratorFunction
• GeneratorFunction
• Inheritance and the prototype chain
• Iterators and generators