I am going through the Coding Train video and trying my own take on it by fetching data from the Poemist API. I can get the title of the poem from the API to show up in the console; however, I can't get it to display on the HTML (it just shows undefined). Anyone know what I might be doing wrong here? Below is my code.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
<title>Fetch a poem</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Fetch a Poem</h1>
<p id="poem">title</p>
<script>
console.log('about to fetch a poem');
catchPoem()
.then(poem => {
document.getElementById('poem').innerText = poem;
console.log('yay');
})
.catch(error => {
console.log('error!');
console.error(error);
});
async function catchPoem() {
const response = await fetch('https://www.poemist.com/api/v1/randompoems');
let json = await response.json();
let title = json[0].title
console.log(title);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
async function catchPoem() {
const response = await fetch('https://www.poemist.com/api/v1/randompoems');
let json = await response.json();
let title = json[0].title
// console.log(title);
return title;
}