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Is there a simple way to pause the script in Javascript? I’m looking for the javascript equivalent of time.sleep(1) in Python. I do NOT want setTimeout(continueExecution, 10), or anything with getTime. Can this be done?
EDIT: It wasn’t quite as easy, but I think I can get it done with setTimeout
JavaScript is usually ran in a single thread using an event-loop. This is why you can’t do any “Thread.sleep”. If you could it would freeze everything else for that duration and believe me you don’t want to do that. This is why almost everything in JavaScript runs using non-blocking IO and that’s why the only way you can do delay execution is by using setTimeout or setInterval.