February 11, 2020
Typescript delay with async/await
Sometimes it is necessary in JavaScript to delay/sleep a program for a certain time. Therefore we can generate this behavior ourselves using a small helper function, thanks to the asynchronous nature of javascript. For example:
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function sleep(ms: number) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); } |
With this we can delay the program flow for a certain time in the following function
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async function delayExample() { //Say Hello console.log('Hello'); // Say World after 2000 milliseconds await sleep(2000); console.log("World"); } |
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Oliver Schwenk
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