Unable to use await

[koskimas]

I have this simple test script:

async function test() {
  return 42; 
}

let x = await test();

And I run it using the command babel-node --stage 0 await-test.js and I get this:

SyntaxError: /Users/foo/bar/await-test.js: Unexpected token (5:14)
  3 | }
  4 |
> 5 | let x = await test();
    |               ^

babel-node --version
5.6.14

What am I doing wrong?

[sebmck]

await can only be on the inside of async functions.

[koskimas]

Well that was fast :D. Thanks! So from an non-async function we must resolve the returned promise. Makes sense now that I think about it.

async function test() {
  return 42;
}

async function main() {
  return await test();
}

main().then(function (res) {
  console.log(res);
});

[sebmck]

Yup, there's no way to block execution outside of them.