@react-corekit/sleep

Non blocking asynchronous sleep. Due the nature of javascript an the event loop, it suspends the current function execution only. It does not pause the entire program execution.

Install

npm install --save @react-corekit/sleep

yarn add @react-corekit/sleep

Syntax

await sleep(n);
// Do something

sleep(n).then(() => {
  // Do something
});

Usage

import sleep from '@react-corekit/sleep';

async function run() {
  /* wait one second before 
      contitue this function execution */
  await sleep(1000);
}

run();

Additional documentation

The setTimeout() method

Async functions - making promises friendly

The basics of async/await

License

MIT © glongh