quite clean and minimal async http call

index.js

const r2 = require('r2')

// asynchronous arrow functions seem to need an explicit return to work properly 
const loadUser = async id => { return await r2(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/${id}`).json }

(async function() {
  console.log(await loadUser(2))
})()

package.json

{
  "name": "playing-with-r2",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "r2": "git+https://git@github.com/mikeal/r2.git"
  }
}