Awaiting coordinates from geocoding google maps API returns pending promise - node.js

Question

I am trying to return coordinates of given adress with gooogle maps geocoding API and fetch. I am able to log these coordinates inside my get fuction, but I have no idea how to return them from the function to use it somewhere else in the code. Already tried multiple varaitions of two approaches:
function getCoordinates1(name) {
locObj = fetch(`https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=${name}&key=mykey`).then( (res) => res.json()).then( (data) =>
{
console.log(data.results[0].geometry.location);
return data.results[0].geometry.location;
}).then((res) => res);
}
let coordinates1 = getCoordinates1(latinaze(name2));
console.log(coordinates1);
async function getCoordinates2(name) {
locObj = await fetch(`https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=${name}&key=mykeyk`).then( (res) => res.json()).then( (data) =>
{
console.log(data.results[0].geometry.location);
//return data.results[0].geometry.location;
}).then((res) => res);
return locObj
}
let coordinates2 = await getCoordinates2(latinaze(name2));
console.log(coordinates2);
First function returns undefined, second returns pending promise. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The first function returns undefined because you don't return anything. As simple as that ;)
The second function returns a pending promise because you don't wait for the promise to be resolved. The promise gets resolved when the callback inside then is invoked, but that happens after you return locObj in getCoordinates2.
You should try this:
// function definition
async function getCoordinates3(name) {
const resp = await fetch(`https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=${name}&key=mykeyk`)
const data = await resp.json();
return data.results[0].geometry.location;
}
// usage
const coordinates3 = await getCoordinates3(latinaze(name3));

Answer 2

I couldn't return any value from function, so I made it a class method and set a property in function body. Now I can get the value form that property after I call the function:
export default class SearchModel {
constructor() {
this.start = '';
this.meta = '';
this.coors = [];
this.address = 'none';
}
//translate coordinates to address
async getAdress(coordinates) {
try {
let geocodeCoordinates = `https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=${this.coors[0]},${this.coors[1]}&key=${process.env.API_GM_KEY}`
const rawData = await fetch(geocodeCoordinates);
//console.log(await rawData.json());
return await rawData.json();
} catch (error) {
return new Error(`Wild ERROR occured, can't get LocObj. Details: ${error}`);
} }
async displayAdress(coordinates) {
const data = await this.getAdress(coordinates);
const dataAdress = await data.results[0].formatted_address;
this.address = await dataAdress; }
}