async/await always returns promise

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Every async function returns a Promise object. The await statement operates on a Promise, waiting until the Promise resolves or rejects.

So no, you can’t do console.log on the result of an async function directly, even if you use await. Using await will make your function wait and then return a Promise which resolves immediately, but it won’t unwrap the Promise for you. You still need to unwrap the Promise returned by the async function, either using await or using .then().

When you use .then() instead of console.logging directly, the .then() method makes the result of the Promise available to you. But you can’t get the result of the Promise from outside the Promise. That’s part of the model of working with Promises.

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