promises scope using await and async

Question

      var accountA;
       var  accountB;
      accounts = async () => {
        accountA = await server.loadAccount(Apub)

        console.log(accountA)
        accountB = await (server.loadAccount(Bpub))
    }

  accounts()

  console.log(accountA);

1) Apub is my public key which i have already declared

2)when i am printing the

accountA

inside the function it is showing me complete details from accountA

3) when i do console.log outside the function, the output is

undefined

4) i have declared the variables outside the function as the global scope

please help me

Answer 1

Although you are using await inside the function you are not waiting till it you get a response while you call accounts which is an async function

var accountA;
var  accountB;
accounts = async () => {
    accountA = await server.loadAccount(Apub)

    console.log(accountA)
    accountB = await (server.loadAccount(Bpub))
}

accounts().then(() => {
    console.log(accountA);
})

If you have the above code in a function which is async then you could use await with accounts too

await accounts()