How to return the result of a promise to a variable?

Question

JavaScript

Good afternoon / evening, dear connoisseurs. I ran into a problem that I can’t solve, maybe someone will give good advice (if possible, describe the mechanism of work, please).
I have the following code:

var p1 = translate('Привет', {from: 'ru', to: lang}).then( function(res) {
    return res.text
});

console.log(p1);

In the end, I get back Promise { <pending> }. How can I rewrite this code in such a way that I get the value returned to res.textthe variable p1?
Thanks...

Answer 1

You're trying to use the result of an asynchronous function in synchronous code, and you can't (and can't) do that.