How do I return the response/result from a function foo that makes an asynchronous request? I am trying to return the value from the callback, as well as assigning the result to a local variable inside the function and returning that one, but none of those ways actually return the response — they all return undefined or whatever the initial value of the variable result is. Example of an asynchrono
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