How do I wait for a promise to finish before returning the variable of a function?

Question

I\'m still struggling with promises, but making some progress thanks to the community here.

I have a simple JS function which queries a Parse database. It\'s suppose

Answer 1

What do I need to do to make this function wait for the result of the promise?

Use async/await (NOT Part of ECMA6, but available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari since end of 2017, see canIuse)
MDN

    async function waitForPromise() {
        // let result = await any Promise, like:
        let result = await Promise.resolve('this is a sample promise');
    }

Added due to comment: An async function always returns a Promise, and in TypeScript it would look like:

    async function waitForPromise(): Promise {
        // let result = await any Promise, like:
        let result = await Promise.resolve('this is a sample promise');
    }