await is only valid in async function

Question

I wrote this code in lib/helper.js

var myfunction = async function(x,y) {
   ....
   return [variableA, variableB]
}
exports.myfunction = myfunct         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem and the following block of code was giving the same error message:

repositories.forEach( repo => {
        const commits = await getCommits(repo);
        displayCommit(commits);
});

The problem is that the method getCommits() was async but I was passing it the argument repo which was also produced by a Promise. So, I had to add the word async to it like this: async(repo) and it started working:

repositories.forEach( async(repo) => {
        const commits = await getCommits(repo);
        displayCommit(commits);
});