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 LEDs has a processing delay, and I need to space commands sent to the micro at least 100ms apart. In C# I'm used to just calling Thread.Sleep(time), but I have not found a similar feature in node.

I have found several solutions using the setTimeout(...) function in node, however, this is asynchronous and does not block the thread ( which is what I need in this scenario).

Is anyone aware of a blocking sleep or delay function? Preferably something that does not just spin the CPU, and has an accuracy of +-10 ms?

Answer: 
As the sleep package author suggests [\*](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sleep):

```js
function msleep(n) {
  Atomics.wait(new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4)), 0, 0, n);
}

function sleep(n) {
  msleep(n * 1000);
}

```
blocking the main thread is not a good style for node because in most cases more then one person is using it. You should use settimeout/setinterval in combination with callbacks.