What's the equivalent of Java's Thread.sleep() in JavaScript?

Assuming you're able to use ECMAScript 2017 you can emulate similar behaviour by using async/await and setTimeout. Here's an example sleep function:

async function sleep(msec) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, msec));
}

You can then use the sleep function in any other async function like this:

async function testSleep() {
    console.log("Waiting for 1 second...");
    await sleep(1000);
    console.log("Waiting done."); // Called 1 second after the first console.log
}

This is nice because it avoids needing a callback. The down side is that it can only be used in async functions. Behind the scenes the testSleep function is paused, and after the sleep completes it is resumed.

From MDN:

The await expression causes async function execution to pause until a Promise is fulfilled or rejected, and to resume execution of the async function after fulfillment.

For a full explanation see:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/await

For Best solution, Use async/await statement for ecma script 2017

await can use only inside of async function

function sleep(time) {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
        setTimeout(resolve, time || 1000);
    });
}

await sleep(10000); //this method wait for 10 sec.

Note : async / await not actualy stoped thread like Thread.sleep but simulate it