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authors: chalarangelo
cover: blog_images/sleepy-cat.jpg
excerpt: Learn all the different ways you can implement a `sleep()` function in JavaScript.
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JavaScript does not come with a `sleep()` function out of the box and that is probably a good idea considering the environments where it runs and the trouble such a function could cause if used incorrectly. The closest equivalent of such a function is `setTimeout`, however there are other, less common ways to implement a function that will freeze the current thread for a specified amount of time.