Non-blocking sleep in ES7 (or, in ES6, setTimeout as a promise).
npm install asleepNon-blocking sleep in ES7 (or, in ES6, setTimeout as a promise).
This is mostly a syntactic alternative to setTimeout in ES6, but in ES7 combined with a loop it will provide a syntactically cleaner alternative to setInterval.
> Due to the very limited code base of this module, we do not anticipate needing to make very many changes to it.
javascript
var asleep = require("asleep");
`Usage in ES6
javascript
// Sleep for 2 seconds (2000 ms), then do something
asleep(2000).then(function(){
console.log('Waking up!');
});
`Usage in ES7
javascript
// Inside any async function:
// Sleep for 2 seconds (2000 ms), then do something
await asleep(2000);
console.log('Waking up!');
`$3
javascript
// Inside any type of loop in any async function:
while(1){
await asleep(1000);
console.log('I say: "Hi" every second!');
}
``