setTimeout in Node.js loop

Question

I\'m a bit confused as to how setTimeout works. I\'m trying to have a setTimeout in a loop, so that the loop iterations are, say, 1s apart. Each l

Answer 1

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this above, but it sounds like you need setInterval not setTimeout.

vat poller = setInterval(makeRequestFunc, 3000)

The code above will make a request every 3 seconds. Since you saved the object to the variable poller, you can stop polling by clearing the object like so:

cleanInterval(poller)