How to return values from async functions using async-await from function? [duplicate]

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You cant await something outside async scope. To get expected result you should wrap your console.log into async IIFE i.e

async function getData() {
  return await axios.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts');
}

(async () => {
  console.log(await getData())
})()

Working sample.

More information about async/await

Since axios returns a promise the async/await can be omitted for the getData function like so:

function getData() {
  return axios.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts');
}

and then do same as we did before

(async () => {
   console.log(await getData())
})()

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