How to return the result of an async function from require?

Question

Express.js

I need to get the result, an object with keys, which I initialize once. How can I get the result and not the callback function?

const channels = require('../boot/channels')
module.exports = () => {
console.log(channels)
}

const Mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Location = require('../models/location');
module.exports = async () =>{
    try {
        let locs = await Location.find({});
            let channels = {
             }
            for (loc of locs) {
                channels[loc.id] = 0;
            } 
        return channels
    } catch (err) {
        console.error(err);
    }
};