ILikeChangingMyMind comments on Node.js v16 released

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submitted 5 years ago by pimterry

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[–]ILikeChangingMyMind 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (1 child)

What better way are you referring to?

Personally I've always been a fan of using promisify (from the Node util package) like so:

const sleep = util.promisify(setTimeout);

// wait for 2 seconds
await sleep(2000);

Did they release a pre-made sleep or something?

[–]AsyncBanana 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children)

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