Await support in Meteor shell

core
1

Hi,

This would be very useful. I find myself using the shell a lot and I would really love this feature :slight_smile:

> async function x() { console.log("hi") }
> await x()
await x()
^^^^^

SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function

Thanks,
Graeme

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2

This isn’t specific to the Meteor shell. Top level await is disallowed by the ecmascript spec.

3

Top level await is supported in latest node repl through an experimental flag. Hopefully it would eventually find its way to Meteor shell too.

Usually this pattern suffices for me:

async function x() { console.log("x") }
async function y() { console.log("y") }

(async () => {
  await x();
  await y();
})()
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4

@gaurav7 I tried your suggestion, but it doesn’t seem to work. A better example would be this:

> async function x() { return "hello" }; (async () => { return await x(); })()
Promise {
  <pending>,
  domain:
   Domain {
     domain: null,
     _events: { error: [Function: debugDomainError] },
     _eventsCount: 1,
     _maxListeners: undefined,
     members: [] } }

How can I get the shell to print the string “hello” instead of the promise?

5

Meteor already wraps all shell commands in a fiber, so it would be pretty trivial to wrap them in an async too?

6

Try:

Promise.await((async () => {
  await x();
  await y();
})())

Edit: assuming your codebase uses https://github.com/meteor/promise

Just realized I never tried async/await in meteor shell per se, only node repl

7

Awesome, that works, tx