错误不是指myfunction而是start。

async function start() {
   ....

   const result = await helper.myfunction('test', 'test');
}

// My function

const myfunction = async function(x, y) {

  return [

    x,

    y,

  ];

}



// Start function

const start = async function(a, b) {

  const result = await myfunction('test', 'test');



  console.log(result);

}



// Call start

start();

我利用这个问题的机会来告诉你一个已知的反模式的使用await方法：return await。

错误

async function myfunction() {

  console.log('Inside of myfunction');

}



// Here we wait for the myfunction to finish

// and then returns a promise that'll be waited for aswell

// It's useless to wait the myfunction to finish before to return

// we can simply returns a promise that will be resolved later



// useless async here

async function start() {

  // useless await here

  return await myfunction();

}



// Call start

(async() => {

  console.log('before start');



  await start();



  console.log('after start');

})();

正确

async function myfunction() {

  console.log('Inside of myfunction');

}



// Here we wait for the myfunction to finish

// and then returns a promise that'll be waited for aswell

// It's useless to wait the myfunction to finish before to return

// we can simply returns a promise that will be resolved later



// Also point that we don't use async keyword on the function because

// we can simply returns the promise returned by myfunction

function start() {

  return myfunction();

}



// Call start

(async() => {

  console.log('before start');



  await start();



  console.log('after start');

})();

另外，要知道有一个return await正确且重要的特殊情况：（使用try / catch）