/**
* The function `httpGet` is an asynchronous function that performs an HTTP GET request to a specified
* URL and returns the JSON response.
* @param theUrl - The `theUrl` parameter in the `httpGet` function is the URL of the resource you want
* to make a GET request to. This function uses the `fetch` API to make an asynchronous HTTP GET
* request to the specified URL and returns the parsed JSON response.
* @returns The `httpGet` function is returning the results of the HTTP GET request made to the
* specified URL. The results are obtained by parsing the response body as JSON data.
*/
export async function httpGet(theUrl) {
const response = await fetch(theUrl);
const results = await response.json();
return results;
}