Different ways to pause JavaScript code

In this article, we will see in detail the need to pause a running JavaScript code and what are the different ways in which one can achieve it like SetTimeout and async/await.

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Why do we need to pause?Different waysSleepSetTimeoutasync/awaitWhy do we need to pause a running code?

Let us assume you made a web page and you want to fetch data in that web page from a diffrent resource and after fetching you want to display a message called "Thank you for visiting" , so in ...