How to use await mongoose without async - node.js

Question

I have this code where I fetch a list of elements so I can make discordjs options with the mongoose data
const items = require(‘./schema.js’)
const items1 = await items.find()
module.exports = {
name: `buy`,
timeout:15000,
/**
* #param {Client} client
* #param {Message} message
* #param {String[]} args
*/
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('buy')
.setDescription('buy an item!')
.addStringOption(option =>
option
.setName('itemid')
.setDescription('the item you want to buy')
.setRequired(true)
/** .addChoices(
items1.forEach(item => {
option.addChoice(`<:${item.EmojiName}:${item.EmojiID}>${item.ItemName} - <:bobux:809551218217058354>${item.Price} `,`${item.ItemID}` )
})
)
*/
),
When I do this, I get the error that you can’t use await outside of async. Does anyone have any solutions/alternatives to this code?
Thanks

Answer 1

The situation you're facing is more like a bad-design symptom than a limitation. What you are actually trying to do is "generating Discord commands — asynchronously — based on Mongoose data".
Well, just do that in the code. Don't try to mix and export synchronously an asynchronously generated thing. Rather simply make a function that generates it :
const Item = require('./schema.js')
const itemToChoice = item => `<:${item.EmojiName}:${item.EmojiID}>${item.ItemName} - <:bobux:809551218217058354>${item.Price} `
const addItemsChoices = (option, items) => (
items.reduce((option, item) => (
option.addChoice(itemToChoice(item),`${item.ItemID}`)
), option)
)
module.exports = async () => {
const items = await Item.find()
const command = {
name: `buy`,
timeout:15000,
/**
* #param {Client} client
* #param {Message} message
* #param {String[]} args
*/
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('buy')
.setDescription('buy an item!')
.addStringOption(option => (
addItemsChoices(
option
.setName('itemid')
.setDescription('the item you want to buy')
.setRequired(true),
items
)
))
}
return command
}
PS: for god sake, format your code
PS2: for god sake, remove smart punctuation on your computer