How to force a program to wait until an HTTP request is finished in JavaScript?

Question

Is there a way in JavaScript to send an HTTP request to an HTTP server and wait until the server responds with a reply? I want my program to wait until the server replies an

Answer 1

For those using axios, you can wrap it in an async iife and then await it:

(async () => {
  let res = await axios.get('https://example.com');

  // do stuff with the response
})();

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Note, I haven't done any error checking here.