Delay

Asynchronous Delay aka Timeouts for Async/Await

Attention: be aware that if you're waiting for a delay and it gets canceled the code after the await delay.wait(n) statement is never executed and asynchronous wrapping the delay will never finish to run! You should use this library only if the async function wrapping the delay doesn't need to be finished. Alternatively you may not cancel the delay or use the cancelAndResolve or cancelAndReject methods ot cancel the delay

API

import Delay from '@distributed-systems/delay';

const delay = new Delay();

// wait for 10 seconds
delay.wait(10*1000);

delay.wait(milliseconds)

Wait n milliseconds with the code execution

delay.wait(250);

delay.cancel()

cancels the delay. Attention: the code after the delay.wait() statement will never be executed!

delay.cancel();

delay.cancelAndResolve(value)

Cancels the delay, continues to run the code after the delay and returns the value.

setTimeout(() => {
    delay.cancelAndResolve(35);
}, 10);

const value = delay.wait(100);

console.log(value); // 35

delay.cancelAndReject(err)

Cancels the delay, continues to run the code after the delay but throws err as exception.

setTimeout(() => {
    delay.cancelAndReject(new Error('stop!'));
}, 10);


try {
    delay.wait(100);
} catch (err) {
    console.log(err.message); // stop!
}