nodejsHow to sleep in Nodejs

async function init() {
  console.log(new Date());
  await sleep(1500);
  console.log(new Date());
}

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    setTimeout(resolve, ms);
  });
}

init();ctrl + cgithub

`sleep(` custom function to sleep for a given number of milliseconds	`new Promise(` creates new promise
`setTimeout` calls given callback in a given number of milliseconds	`await sleep(1500);` will synchronously sleep for 1.5 seconds

Usage example

async function init() {
  console.log(new Date());
  await sleep(1500);
  console.log(new Date());
}

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    setTimeout(resolve, ms);
  });
}

init();

output

2022-08-04T11:08:11.484Z
2022-08-04T11:08:12.990Z

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