The most ridiculously awesome way to sleep synchronously in Node.js

LICENSE.txt

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To the extent possible under law, Jason Huggins has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to sleep-example.js and sleep-server.js.

This work is published from: United States.

sleep-example.js

// Client - Run this in a second terminal window:
// Requires http-sync (https://github.com/dhruvbird/http-sync) and libcurl.

var http_sync = require('http-sync');

var sleep = function(seconds) {
    var req = http_sync.request({
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 8000,
        path: '/' + seconds
    }).end();
}

// Usage:
sleep(1);  // sleep one second

// This is equivalent to (but more ridiculously awesome than) the following code in Python:
// >>> from time import sleep
// >>> sleep(1)

sleep-server.js

// Server - Run this in a terminal window:
var http = require("http"),
    url = require("url");

http.createServer(function (req,res) {
    var sleep_amount = url.parse(req.url).path.split('/')[1];

    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});    
    setTimeout(function () {
        res.end();
    }, sleep_amount * 1000);

    console.log('Number of seconds to sleep: ' + sleep_amount);
}).listen(8000);