How to get text of an HTML-Element with Selenium/Node.js

Question

Unfortunately I did not find any existing solution for my problem on stackoverflow. So, can someone help.

I want to get the text of an html-element. I tried this:

var element = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();

console.log(element);

Unfortunately this did not work so far.

Answer 1

Someone posted an answer and deleted it seconds after it...thank you anyway:

For you information, this works fine for me:

var textPromise = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className("credits")).getText();
textPromise.then((text) => {
  console.log(text);
});