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You can't return the posts from the function because the function has already returned at this point. That's because .then() is asynchronous. It executes the provided callback when the work (fetching the posts) is done, but the function continues to run after the call to .then(), and because you return nothing, you get nothing.

If you want a function to return the result of an asynchronous operation, you have to return a promise from the function itself. To help developers with that, there's the async function that automatically returns a promise. In an async function, you can wait for other promises with the await keyword. Your function would look like this as an async function: