How to create a sleep/delay in nodejs that is Blocking?

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Node is asynchronous by nature, and that’s what’s great about it, so you really shouldn’t be blocking the thread, but as this seems to be for a project controlling LED’s, I’ll post a workaraound anyway, even if it’s not a very good one and shouldn’t be used (seriously).

A while loop will block the thread, so you can create your own sleep function

function sleep(time, callback) {
    var stop = new Date().getTime();
    while(new Date().getTime() < stop + time) {
        ;
    }
    callback();
}

to be used as

sleep(1000, function() {
   // executes after one second, and blocks the thread
});

I think this is the only way to block the thread (in principle), keeping it busy in a loop, as Node doesn’t have any blocking functionality built in, as it would sorta defeat the purpose of the async behaviour.

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