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sleep-promise
Advanced tools
The 'sleep-promise' npm package provides a simple way to pause the execution of asynchronous code for a specified duration. It returns a promise that resolves after the given time, making it useful for delaying operations in a non-blocking manner.
Basic Sleep
This feature allows you to pause the execution of your code for a specified duration. In this example, the code pauses for 2 seconds between logging 'Start' and 'End'.
const sleep = require('sleep-promise');
async function example() {
console.log('Start');
await sleep(2000); // Sleep for 2 seconds
console.log('End');
}
example();
Sleep with Error Handling
This feature demonstrates how to handle errors that might occur during the sleep operation. Although 'sleep-promise' itself does not throw errors, this pattern is useful for more complex scenarios where other asynchronous operations might fail.
const sleep = require('sleep-promise');
async function example() {
try {
console.log('Start');
await sleep(2000); // Sleep for 2 seconds
console.log('End');
} catch (error) {
console.error('An error occurred:', error);
}
}
example();
The 'delay' package provides similar functionality to 'sleep-promise' by allowing you to delay the execution of asynchronous code. It also offers additional features like creating cancellable delays and delay loops. Compared to 'sleep-promise', 'delay' is more feature-rich and versatile.
The 'await-sleep' package is another alternative that provides a simple way to pause execution in async functions. It is very similar to 'sleep-promise' in terms of functionality but has a smaller footprint and fewer additional features.
sleep-promise resolves a promise after a specified delay.
npm install sleep-promise
import sleep from 'sleep-promise';
(async () => {
await sleep(2000);
console.log('2 seconds later …');
})();
var sleep = require('sleep-promise');
sleep(2000).then(function() {
console.log('2 seconds later …');
});
import sleep from 'sleep-promise';
let trace = value => {
console.log(value);
return value;
};
sleep(2000)
.then(() => 'hello')
.then(trace)
.then(sleep(1000))
.then(value => value + ' world')
.then(trace)
.then(sleep(500))
.then(value => value + '!')
.then(trace);
// [2 seconds sleep]
// hello
// [1 second sleep]
// hello world
// [500 ms sleep]
// hello world!
import sinon from 'sinon';
import sleep from 'sleep-promise';
const clock = sinon.useFakeTimers();
(async () => {
// 2 seconds faked by sinon
const sleepPromise = sleep(2000);
clock.tick(2000);
await sleepPromise;
console.log('instant');
// Caches global setTimeout before sinon replaced it
const sleepPromise2 = sleep(2000, { useCachedSetTimeout: true });
clock.tick(2000);
await sleepPromise2;
console.log('2 seconds later');
})();
FAQs
Resolves a promise after a specified delay
The npm package sleep-promise receives a total of 183,678 weekly downloads. As such, sleep-promise popularity was classified as popular.
We found that sleep-promise 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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