What is the best way to pause execution in Node.js?

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This is the cleanest and most modern approach to handle a delay in Node.js. It makes use of async/await along with a Promise that resolves after a delay:

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

async function main() {
    console.log('Welcome to my console,');

    await sleep(10000); // Wait for 10 seconds

    console.log('Blah blah blah blah extra-blah');
}

main();