Save Async/Await response on a variable

1) Return something from your asyncExample function

const asyncExample = async () => {
  const result = await axios(users)

  return result
}

2) Call that function and handle its returned Promise:

;(async () => {
  const users = await asyncExample()
  console.log(users)
})()

Here's why should you handle it like this:

• You can't do top-level await (there's a proposal for it though); await must exist within an async function.

However I must point out that your original example doesn't need async/await at all; Since axios already returns a Promise you can simply do:

const asyncExample = () => {
  return axios(users)
}

const users = await asyncExample()

try..catch creates a new block scope. Use let to define data before try..catch instead of const, return data from asyncExample function call

(async() => {

  const users = 123;

  const asyncExample = async() => {
    let data;
    try {
      data = await Promise.resolve(users);
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
    }
    return data;
  };

  //Save response on a variable
  const globalData = await asyncExample();
  console.log(globalData);
  // return globalData;
})();