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

You can use fs.promises available natively since Node v11.0.0

import fs from 'fs';

const readFile = async filePath => {
  try {
    const data = await fs.promises.readFile(filePath, 'utf8')
    return data
  }
  catch(err) {
    console.log(err)
  }
}