Error - await is only valid in async function, when calling deployed on a truffle smart contract

Question

Was following the tutorial on the truffle website . Did each step and setup as is. My truffle compile and truffle migrate work as intended. But when I try to do let instance = await MetaCoin.deployed() in truffle console, I get this error -

evalmachine.<anonymous>:1
let instance = await MetaCoin.deployed()
               ^^^^^

Uncaught SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function

Answer 1

Looks like MetaCoin is not correctly defined defined Make sure you are not missing one of these steps on you migration script eg:

 const MetaCoin = artifacts.require("YourContractFilame")
 await deployer.deploy(MetaCoin)
 const deployedMetaCoinContract = await MetaCoin.deployed()

Answer 2

Try to put it in async function and then use.then(), .catch() to see if your contract is deployed...

Answer 3

For anyone that came across this error it looks like the async function was left as a regular function

module.exports = >async< function(deployer, network, accounts)

So since the async was left out when await was used it couldn't pair with the correct async function