{"id":426,"date":"2018-04-24T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T11:01:22","slug":"javascript-using-await-to-make-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"javascript &#8211; using await to make sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In old day, when using javascript to create timer,<\/p>\n<p>setInterval or setTimeout are standard function to implement<br \/>\nA few other way to do is using third-party npm library.<br \/>\nor even calling c++ as native timer.<\/p>\n<p>with ES2016, await and asyn keyword has been introducted into.<br \/>\nHere is example.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"javascript\" line=\"1\">\r\n\r\nfunction sleep(ms) {\r\n  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));\r\n}\r\n\r\nasync function demo() {\r\n  console.log('Taking a break...');\r\n  await sleep(2000);\r\n  console.log('Two second later');\r\n}\r\n\r\ndemo();\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In old day, when using javascript to create timer, setInterval or setTimeout are standard function to implement A few other way to do is using third-party npm library. or even calling c++ as native timer. with ES2016, await and asyn keyword has been introducted into. Here is example. function sleep(ms) { return new Promise(resolve => [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emacslisp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}