How to read file with async/await properly?

Question

I cannot figure out how async/await works. I slightly understands it but I can\'t make it work.

Answer 1

Since Node v11.0.0 fs promises are available natively without promisify:

const fs = require('fs').promises;
async function loadMonoCounter() {
    const data = await fs.readFile("monolitic.txt", "binary");
    return new Buffer(data);
}