---
source: crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/spec_tests.rs
expression: JsTryStatement.js
---
# Input
```jsx
function JsTryStatement1() {
    try {
        tryBlock();
        return;
    } catch (err) {
        catchClause();
        return;
    }

    afterTryCatchReturn();
}

function JsTryStatement2() {
    try {
        tryBlock();
        return;
    } catch (err) {
        catchClause();
    }

    afterTryCatchReturn();
}

function JsTryStatement3() {
    return;

    try {
        tryBlock();
    } catch (err) {
        catchClause();
    }
}

function JsTryStatement4() {
    try {
    } catch (err) {
        catchClause();
    }
}

```

# Diagnostics
```
JsTryStatement.js:10:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
     8 │     }
     9 │ 
  > 10 │     afterTryCatchReturn();
       │     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    11 │ }
    12 │ 
  
  i ... because either this statement ...
  
    2 │     try {
    3 │         tryBlock();
  > 4 │         return;
      │         ^^^^^^^
    5 │     } catch (err) {
    6 │         catchClause();
  
  i ... or this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    5 │     } catch (err) {
    6 │         catchClause();
  > 7 │         return;
      │         ^^^^^^^
    8 │     }
    9 │ 
  

```

```
JsTryStatement.js:27:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
    25 │     return;
    26 │ 
  > 27 │     try {
       │     ^^^^^
  > 28 │         tryBlock();
  > 29 │     } catch (err) {
  > 30 │         catchClause();
  > 31 │     }
       │     ^
    32 │ }
    33 │ 
  
  i ... because this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    24 │ function JsTryStatement3() {
  > 25 │     return;
       │     ^^^^^^^
    26 │ 
    27 │     try {
  

```

```
JsTryStatement.js:36:19 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code is unreachable
  
    34 │ function JsTryStatement4() {
    35 │     try {
  > 36 │     } catch (err) {
       │                   ^
  > 37 │         catchClause();
  > 38 │     }
       │     ^
    39 │ }
    40 │ 
  

```