How to use knex with async/await?

Question

I'm trying to use Knex with async/await since Knex has a Promise interface. My code is below.

const db = makeKnex({
  client: 'mysql',
  connection: {
    host: process.env.MYSQL_HOST,
    user: process.env.MYSQL_USER,
    password: process.env.MYSQL_PASSWORD,
    database: process.env.MYSQL_DATABASE,
  },
  pool: { min: 0, max: 100 },
});

async function getUsers() {
  return await db.select()
  .from('users')
  .limit(10);
}
const res = getUsers();
console.log('KNEX', res);

I expected to get the rows of my query back, but the output is

KNEX Promise {
_c: [],
_a: undefined,
_s: 0,
_d: false,
_v: undefined,
_h: 0,
_n: false }

Answer 1

You should call await in a async signed function. Here is the pattern what I use.

(async function(){
  const res = await getUsers();
  console.log('KNEX', res);
})()