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

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()