I am having an issue turning this http request into a promise or something that I can wait for. I need to wait for the response because it contains the record id that was created with the request iself. the function addChannelField is being called from ChannelFieldsService addChannelField(data: any) { await this.http .post<{ message: string; post: any }>( BACKEND_URL, postData ).subscribe(responseData => { console.log('responseData', responseData); responseData // this is the data I want to return to function calling this function }) } the function is being called from another component using the following line: this.channelFieldsService.addChannelField(formData) I am tried adding async, await... that did not work. I think I am suppose to wrap this function in a promise but I cant get it to work I found this exact question on stackoverflow but they dont show the answer, they only describe it. so i dont get it Continue reading...