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Chaitanya_Rajguru
Chaitanya_Rajguru
August 19, 2024
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How to make async call to the figma.getNodeByIdAsync() function?

Greetings from a newbie!

I cannot get a call to Figma.getNodeByIdAsync() to work. Could anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I have searched this forum and referred to a sample plugin go-to that uses this function, but I am still stuck.

Below is my simplified code just for checking this functionality. When I run it as part of the plugin, console logs #1 and #2 are generated but not #3, and the console returns to the ‘>’ prompt.

Thank you!

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Pavel_Kiselev
Pavel_KiselevSolution
Power Member
August 20, 2024

To make it work you need to run it async way. Just wrap your code into another asynchronous function and run getParent with await keyword

(async ()=> {
    //…
    await getParen(id);
    figma.closePlugin();
})()
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Chaitanya_Rajguru
Chaitanya_RajguruAuthor
August 22, 2024

Update: The last code I shared in this post is working today! 👍 I am not sure what changed since yesterday other than a couple of restarts of Figma and VSC, but no complaints. Thanks a lot for your help @tank666 and @Pavel_Kiselev !

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