30-seconds-of-code/snippets/delay.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
delay	function,intermediate	2018-01-24T14:32:20+02:00	2020-10-19T18:51:03+03:00

Invokes the provided function after ms milliseconds.

• Use setTimeout() to delay execution of fn.
• Use the spread (...) operator to supply the function with an arbitrary number of arguments.

const delay = (fn, ms, ...args) => setTimeout(fn, ms, ...args);

delay(
  function(text) {
    console.log(text);
  },
  1000,
  'later'
); // Logs 'later' after one second.