The first await below generates the warning 'await' has no effect on the type of this expression if I do not include the .catch line immediately found after (and currently commented out). However, all the code is included in a try-catch block. Why am I receiving this warning? Isn't the MongoClient.connectan asynchronous call?
const db = null
async function dbConnect() {
try {
const client = await MongoClient.connect(url, {useUnifiedTopology: true})
// .catch(err => { console.log(err) })
if (!client) throw new Error("Database Not Available")
db = await client.db(dbName)
} catch (err) {
console.log(err)
}
}
dbConnect()
.connect() returns a promise not a client. Try this code:
const db = null
async function dbConnect() {
try {
const client = new MongoClient(url)
await client.connect({useUnifiedTopology: true})
db = await client.db(dbName)
} catch (err) {
console.log(err)
}
}
dbConnect()