async / await not working in combination with fetch

Question

I\'m trying to use ES7 async / await together with fetch. I know I\'m close but I can\'t get it to work. Here is the code:

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Answer 1

You forgot to declare response as a variable. Class code is always strict code, and you won't get away with assigning to implictly global variables. Instead, it throws a ReferenceError.

Apart from that, Response objects don't have a responseText property like a XHR, they do have a .text() method that waits for the body to be received and returns a promise.

class Bar {
    async load() {
        let url =  'https://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/goog/quote?format=json';
        try {
            let response = await fetch(url);
//          ^^^^
            return await response.text();
//                                ^^^^^^
        } catch (e) {
            return e.message;
        }
    }
}