I’m certain this is a lack of understanding of JS or synchronous/asynchronous operations on my part, but: if I want to call Airtable.base.create through the Node.js module and actually get the created records (or error) returned to be used elsewhere,...
So I asked elsewhere and it seems the real problem was the asynchronicity, not the variable scope. Having a variable above the function would still just give me an array of unresolved Promise objects.
The solution I wound up with looks like this:
exp...
