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

If you are writing a Chrome Extension and you get this error for your code at root, you can fix it using the following "workaround":

async function run() {
    // Your async code here
    const beers = await fetch("https://api.punkapi.com/v2/beers");
}

run();

Basically you have to wrap your async code in an async function and then call the function without awaiting it.