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

This is TypeScript version of @Joel's answer. It is usable after Node 11.0:

import { promises as fs } from 'fs';

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