I'm trying to use node-fetch with nodejs to make api calls to my personal api. I would like to be able to update certain values synchronously within this periodically as things update/change with my database behind the scenes. I know that async and await exist but with all my googling I still don't quite understand them or how they interact with fetch requests.

This is a bit of example code I'm trying to get working but still just logs undefined

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'http://example.com';

let logs;



example();

console.log(logs);

async function example(){

    //Do things here

    logs = await retrieveLogs();

    //Do more things here

}



async function retrieveLogs(){

    await fetch(url)

    .then(res => res.json())

    .then(json => {return json})

    .catch(e => console.log(e))

}