await is only valid in async function

Question

I wrote this code in lib/helper.js

var myfunction = async function(x,y) {
   ....
   return [variableA, variableB]
}
exports.myfunction = myfunct         


        

Answer 1

The current implementation of async / await only supports the await keyword inside of async functions Change your start function signature so you can use await inside start.

 var start = async function(a, b) {

 }

For those interested, the proposal for top-level await is currently in Stage 2: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-top-level-await