[SOLVED] Meteor/roles gives 'await' error

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1

Apologies if this is a simplistic thing, but I’m a hobbyist developer at best, and though I’ve used it a bit in the past, moving to the async/await is new to me for sure.

I’m starting a brand new meteor 3 (3.1.2) project with Blaze. I have the main app working, finally figured out the differences between ostrio-flow-router vs kadira-flow-router and have routing working.

But now i"m trying to use meteor/roles to get the roles aspect working for my registration and login stuff.

in server/main.js I have the following:

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { Roles } from 'metoer/roles';

Meteor.startup(() => {
  // code to run on server at startup
  await Roles.createRoleAsync("user", { unlessExists: true });
  await Roles.createRoleAsync("admin", { unlessExists: true });
  await Roles.createRoleAsync("systemadmin", { unlessExists: true });
});

I’m using the information from the guide found here: Roles | Docs

In my terminal, on startup I get the following output:

=> Errors prevented startup:                  
   
   While building for os.linux.x86_64:
   server/main.js:6:2: /home/brian/Developer/my-app/server/main.js: Unexpected reserved
   word 'await'. (6:2)
   
     4 | Meteor.startup(() => {
    5 |   // code to run on server at startup
   > 6 |   await
   Roles.createRoleAsync("user", {
   unlessExists: true });
      |   ^
    7 |   await
   Roles.createRoleAsync("admin", {
   unlessExists: true });
    8 |   await
   Roles.createRoleAsync("systemadmin", {
   unlessExists: true });
    9 | });
   
=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

Any help on identifying why this is happening would be appreciated.

2

I feel like I need an async somewhere before the function. But not sure where.

3

You can try:

Meteor.startup(async () => {

4

Interestingly, I tried that, but it didn’t work. Let me try again, and I’ll completely restart the meteor app.

5

Hey! It worked! Sweet, thank you @harry73