https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58142046/javascript-await-syntaxerror-unexpted-identifier-even-if-i-am-awaiting-insi?noredirect=1#58142266

async.await.js

const request = require('request');

let MY_THINGS = [];

function getItems() {
    let url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/';
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        request.get(url, (err, res, body) => {
            if(err) reject(err);
            if(res.statusCode !== 200) reject(res.statusCode);

            let theItems = JSON.parse(body).map(i => { return i.title });
            resolve(theItems);
        })
    })
}

module.exports = async function doGetItems() {
    let things = await getItems();
    things.forEach(thing => MY_THINGS.push(thing));
    console.log(MY_THINGS);
}