Web3 promise stuck on pending on forked mainnet

Question

I am trying to run a method and the return is stuck on promise pending, if i have to do await it still stuck waiting for return. I have no idea why this happen, i log the value of localWeb3 and it returns an object without a problem

There is the snippet:

txChecker = async () => {
const localWeb3 = new Web3(
      ganache.provider({ fork: "wss://eth-mainnet.ws.alchemyapi.io/v2/apikey" })
    )

console.log(localWeb3) // image attached

console.log("latest_block forked 1: ", localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()) // promise state pending, value undefined

console.log("latest_block forked 2: ", await localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()) // black
}

Why is this happening and how do i resolve this issue?

Answer 1

I have tried your code as described below (using Infura) and it worked:

const txChecker = async () => {

    const localWeb3 = new Web3(new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, `wss://rinkeby.infura.io/ws/v3/${infuraKey}`));

    console.log(localWeb3);

    console.log("latest_block forked 1: ", await localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()); // Should work 

    console.log("latest_block forked 2: ",  localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()); // Shouldn't work
}

txChecker();

Output:

You certainly need the await when you get the block asynchronously; otherwise, you will be retrieving the block number before the promise is resolved.

If you are not getting the block number, there might be an issue with the provider you are using, so perhaps you can try Infura to double check.

UPDATE

Also tested with Ganache provider using the fork parameter and worked correctly with same results:

const Web3 = require('web3');
const ganache = require('ganache-cli');

const txChecker = async () => {

    const localWeb3 = new Web3(ganache.provider({fork: `wss://rinkeby.infura.io/ws/v3/${infuraKey}`}));

    console.log(localWeb3);

    console.log("latest_block forked 1: ", await localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()); // Should work 

    console.log("latest_block forked 2: ",  localWeb3.eth.getBlockNumber()); // Shouldn't work
}

txChecker();