teddybear

Blocks your event loop, for a specified amount of time. Without killing your CPU.

Installation

npm install teddybear

teddybear(ms)

teddybear takes a number of milliseconds and the process will sleep for the given amount of time.

var teddybear = require('teddybear');

console.time('block');
teddybear(500);
console.timeEnd('block'); // block: ~500ms

License

The software is license under "MIT"

Copyright (c) 2012 Andreas Madsen

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