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express-delay
Advanced tools
Delay express responses
You want to test your fancy ajax loaders, spinners and stuff, but your dev machine is too damn fast for that shit!
var app = require('express')();
var delay = require('express-delay');
// Delay all responses for 1 second
app.use(delay(1000));
// Response will be delayed for 1 second
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('Hello world!');
});
// ...
You can also give it a range of values, which will make the delay random:
// Delay will be between 200 and 500 milliseconds
app.use(delay(200, 500));
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FAQs
Delay express responses
We found that express-delay demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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