Force synchronous looping of http requests - asynchronous

Question

I've been struggling with this piece of code for a while and I'm reaching out for help. I have a array of dates and I"m trying to make http requests in order of the array and to write the return information, also in order.
Here is my code:
const dateArray = ['november-22-2019', 'november-25-2019', 'november-26-2019', 'november-27-2019', 'november-29-2019'];
async function loppThroughArray() {
for (const date of dateArray) {
const options = {
url: process.env.URL + date
};
await asyncRequest(options, date);
}
}
async function asyncRequest(options, date) {
request(options, function(error, response, html) {
if (error) {
return;
}
if (response.statusCode !== 200) {
return;
}
const $ = cheerio.load(html);
const content = $('.entry-content');
const formattedContent = content.text()
.split('\t').join('')
.split('\n\n\n').join('')
.split('\n\n').join('');
const dataToBeWritten = '### ' + date + '\n' + formattedContent + '\n\n';
fs.appendFileSync(`./WODs/${currentDate}.md`, dataToBeWritten, 'utf-8', {'flags':'a+'});
fs.appendFileSync(`./WODs/${currentDate}.txt`, dataToBeWritten, 'utf-8', {'flags':'a+'});
});
}
loppThroughArray();

Answer 1

I managed to solve this by using a version of 'request' that uses promises instead of callbacks. See code:
async function loppThroughArray() {
for (const date of dateArray) {
const options = {
url: process.env.URL + date
};
await asyncRequest(options, date);
console.log('fetching: ', date);
}
}
async function asyncRequest(options, date) {
await rp(options)
.then(function(html){
const $ = cheerio.load(html);
const content = $('.entry-content');
const formattedContent = content.text()
.split('\t').join('')
.split('\n\n\n').join('')
.split('\n\n').join('');
const dataToBeWritten = '### ' + date + '\n' + formattedContent + '\n\n';
fs.appendFileSync(`./WODs/${currentDate}.md`, dataToBeWritten, 'utf-8', {'flags':'a+'});
fs.appendFileSync(`./WODs/${currentDate}.txt`, dataToBeWritten, 'utf-8', {'flags':'a+'});
});
}
loppThroughArray();