Fetch to var

In this huge world of JSON APIs, fetch is the most common implementation for receiving an HTTP response from an API. However, it's a lot more difficult for newbies to get the fetch data into a variable. Here it is:

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const fetch = require("node-fetch")

  

    
// A function to get data from a URL
async function getData(url) {
    const x = await fetch(url)  // We wait for the data to arrive
    return await x.json()  // We wait for the data to convert to JSON
}

// We wait for the data to arrive
const data = await getData("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1")

// We log/print the arrived JSON data
console.log(data)