How to create a sleep/delay in nodejs that is Blocking?

Question

I\'m currently trying to learn nodejs and a small project I\'m working is writing an API to control some networked LED lights.

The microprocessor controlling the LED

Answer 1

Blocking in Node.js is not necessary, even when developing tight hardware solutions. See temporal.js which does not use setTimeout or setIntervalsetImmediate. Instead, it uses setImmediate or nextTick which give much higher resolution task execution, and you can create a linear list of tasks. But you can do it without blocking the thread.