Save Async/Await response on a variable

Question

I am trying to understand async calls using async/await and try/catch.

In the example below, how can I save my successful response to a variable that can be utilized throughout the rest of the code?

const axios = require('axios');
const users = 'http://localhost:3000/users';

const asyncExample = async () =>{
    try {
        const data = await axios(users);
        console.log(data); //200
    }
    catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
};

//Save response on a variable
const globalData = asyncExample(); 
console.log(globalData) //Promise { <pending> }

Answer 1

1) Return something from your asyncExample function

const asyncExample = async () => {
  const result = await axios(users)

  return result
}

2) Call that function and handle its returned Promise:

;(async () => {
  const users = await asyncExample()
  console.log(users)
})()

Here's why should you handle it like this:

• You can't do top-level await (there's a proposal for it though); await must exist within an async function.

However I must point out that your original example doesn't need async/await at all; Since axios already returns a Promise you can simply do:

const asyncExample = () => {
  return axios(users)
}

const users = await asyncExample()