Using results outside of async function

sorry if I ask this question here, but tried a lot of things and wasn’t able to solve this problem.

I am using this Library, I ran the example and all is good but when I
try to use the results outside the scope of the async function. like this:

let x;

const payload = {"Traffic":99,"Growth":9,"Transactions":9,"Weight":33};

let promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    decisionTable.execute_decision_table("Volumetrics", 
    decision_table,payload,  (err, results)  => {  
        resolve(results);   
    });
});

 x = promise.then(
    result =>{return (result) } 
);

console.log (x);

always got this: Promise { <pending> } rather than the json object

I guess is my ignorance about promises and async functions. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

>Solution :

You’d only be able to use it inside the function passed to then() like so:

promise.then(
    result => console.log(result) 
);

If you were going to do other cool stuff, you’d have to do it all in there.

If you don’t like how that looks, look into the async/await syntax which is more readable in most cases like so:

let x = await promise;

console.log (x);