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How to get Async code to actually wait for the function to finish executing before continuing

What I'm trying to do

I'm still new to working with asynchronous code, I'm trying to do something basic, but I'm not seeing what's missing here.

So I have this function that gets all orders from Firestore.

getAllOrders() = async () => {
    var orderArray = []

    this.firestore.collection('orders')
      .where('status', '==', status) 
      .where('createdAt', '>=', start)
      .where('createdAt', '<=', end)
      .get()  
      .then(snapshot => {              
        snapshot.forEach(docs => {
            orderArray.push(docs.data())
        })
        console.log(orderArray); //outputs the orders correctly
        return orderArray;
       }).catch(error => {
        console.log(error)
       })
}

I want to call getAllOrders to get the orders and output them to the console. I tried the 2 following methods to get the orders to print. Both output undefined.

Method 1

const onSubmit = async () => {
    props.firebase.getAllOrders().then((orders) => {
        console.log(orders);
    })
}

Method 2

const onSubmit = async () => {
    const orders = await props.firebase.getAllOrders()
    console.log(orders)

}

The first thing that is outputted is undefined and then the correct order array, so the await is not working. I know I'm missing something to get this to work. What should I change it to make it work?

about 4 years ago · Santiago Gelvez
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