const sleep = (milliseconds) => {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds))
}
/*Use like so*/
async function timeSensativeAction(){ //must be async func
//do something here
await sleep(5000) //wait 5 seconds
//continue on...
}function sleep(milliseconds) {
const date = Date.now();
let currentDate = null;
do {
currentDate = Date.now();
} while (currentDate - date < milliseconds);
}
console.log("Hello");
sleep(2000);
console.log("World!");//Javascipt is asyncronous so you can't pause/block code execution
//You can delay doing something with setTimeout
setTimeout(function(){
alert("Sup!");
}, 2000);//wait 2 secondsfunction sleep(ms) {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
async function delayedGreeting() {
console.log("Hello");
await sleep(2000);
console.log("World!");
await sleep(2000);
console.log("Goodbye!");
}
delayedGreeting();function sleep(ms) {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
async function demo() {
console.log('Taking a break...');
await sleep(2000);
console.log('Two seconds later, showing sleep in a loop...');
// Sleep in loop
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
if (i === 3)
await sleep(2000);
console.log(i);
}
}
demo();
Run code snippetHide resultsconsole.log("Hello");
setTimeout(() => { console.log("World!"); }, 5000);setTimeout(myFunction, 3000);