Last updated on November 17, 2022
Top-level await enables developers to use the await keyword outside of async functions. Starting from Node.js v14 top-level await is available and it is only available in ES modules. This means you can not use it with common js modules.
Async/await
Async/await is the syntactical modification of promises to avoid chaining. It makes the code a lot cleaner and easier to understand. The await keyword makes the code halt until the promise is resolved or rejected.
(async function() {
let getData = await axios('https://arjunphp.com/api')
console.log(getData.data)
}());The new behavior
await axios('https://arjunphp.com/api');