Mobile First Solution: Sass

This was my first time using an api call in javascript. I should point point out that I've only been learning and using js going on two months now, so I have limited experience with some aspects of it especially with asynchronous functions.

I tried to implement some sort of feedback to the user when the api call fails due to bad network. I was able to get it working (sort of). If you tried to generate an advice without a connection you'd see what I did. The issue is. I wanted to be able to make the api call retry a couple of times before giving that feedback; right now it just gives the error once it fails the first time. Tried to research some solutions online but some persons were using 'Promises' which I frankly don't understand well at this point. If you know a way I could do something like that or you can point me to a good resource to learn about promises, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance