UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block

I am getting following error in my Node-Express App

UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 4)

To say the least, I have created a helper function which looks something like this

const getEmails = (userID, targettedEndpoint, headerAccessToken) => {
    return axios.get(base_url + userID + targettedEndpoint,  { headers: {"Authorization" : `Bearer ${headerAccessToken}`} })
    .catch(error => { throw error})
}

and then I am importing this helper function

const gmaiLHelper = require("./../helper/gmail_helper")

and calling it inside my api route like this

router.get("/emailfetch", authCheck, async (req, res) => {
  //listing messages in users mailbox 
  let emailFetch = await gmaiLHelper.getEmails(req.user._doc.profile_id , '/messages', req.user.accessToken)
  .catch(error => { throw error})
  emailFetch = emailFetch.data
  res.send(emailFetch)
})

From my end, I think I am handling the error by using catch block.

Question: Can someone explain me why I am getting the error and how can I fix it?

.catch(error => { throw error}) is a no-op. It results in unhandled rejection in route handler.

As explained in this answer, Express doesn't support promises, all rejections should be handled manually:

router.get("/emailfetch", authCheck, async (req, res, next) => {
  try {
  //listing messages in users mailbox 
    let emailFetch = await gmaiLHelper.getEmails(req.user._doc.profile_id , '/messages', req.user.accessToken)
    emailFetch = emailFetch.data
    res.send(emailFetch)
  } catch (err) {
    next(err);
  }
})

I suggest removing the below code from getMails

 .catch(error => { throw error})

In your main function you should put await and related code in Try block and also add one catch block where you failure code.

you function gmaiLHelper.getEmails should return a promise which has reject and resolve in it.

Now while calling and using await put that in try catch block(remove the .catch) as below.

router.get("/emailfetch", authCheck, async (req, res) => {
  //listing messages in users mailbox 
try{
  let emailFetch = await gmaiLHelper.getEmails(req.user._doc.profile_id , '/messages', req.user.accessToken)
}
catch (error) { 
 // your catch block code goes here
})