Making NodeJS Functions Sleep

Andrew Evans
4 min readMar 9, 2021

Here are my two cats Chestnut and Rey. They’re showing what a well rested NodeJS function looks like.

When learning JavaScript for the first time, one of the biggest challenges is understanding the event loop. Unlike many other languages, JavaScript operates inside a hosted environment which determines how the code is actually ran. This means that things like scope and order can make or break JavaScript…

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