smsrouter | convenient server process for routing SMS text messages | SMS library

I need to use dotnet5 with Azure Functions so followed the guidance to create a new solution: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/dotnet-isolated-process-guide.

This worked great so next job was to add in serilog with sinks for console and sql server.

I have added nuget packages:

• Serilog.AspNetCore v4.1.0
• Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer v5.6.0

Here is the Program.Main:

I'm building an Express app using Twilio to allow a group of people to communicate via SMS without having to install an app or deal with the limitations on group texts that some phones/carriers seem to have. It's deployed via Azure, but I'm reasonably sure I'm past the configuration headaches. As an early test that I can make this work and for a bit of flavor, I am trying to set up a feature so you can text "joke" (ideally case-insensitive) and it will send a random joke from https://icanhazdadjoke.com/. If anything else is texted, for now it should basically echo it back.

I get the sense this has to do with js being asynchronous and the code moving on before the GET comes back, so I'm trying to use promises to get the code to wait, but the conditional nature is a new wrinkle for me. I've been looking for answers, but nothing seems to work. I've at least isolated the problem so the non-joke arm works correctly.

Here is the function for retrieving the joke, the console.log is outputting correctly: