(node) Get rest status result in a function with unirest - node.js

my first steps with node...
I want to access to the response status when calling a function like this:
var unirest = require('unirest');
function doPut(){
var Request = unirest.put('some_url').type('json').send('some_json');
return Request.end(function (response) {
return response.status;
});
}
console.log("Status is: " + doPut())
Inside the inner code, the value of status is "204" but when asking outside the function doput() i get an object,how can I pass the value from the inner function?
Thanks.

The reason [object Object] is returned is because you're just printing the object. Either (if you know the output format) print a specific value or use JSON.stringify(doput()).

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