Is there any way to make a bot wait for some time (for example 5 seconds) before continuing the code? I need something like:
client.on('messageCreate', message => {
message.channel.send('1st message')
wait(5000)
message.channel.send('2nd message')
wait(5000)
message.channel.send('3rd message')
})
I tried using setInterval, like many people suggest, but that doesn't seem to be a solution for me.
Also I can't use await setTimeout(time) because of SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions and the top level bodies of modules and TypeError [ERR_INVALID_CALLBACK]: Callback must be a function. Received 5000
You can promisify setTimeout with Node's Util library. Then make the messageCreate callback asynchronous.
const wait = require('util').promisify(setTimeout);
client.on('messageCreate', async message => {
message.channel.send('1st message')
await wait(5000)
message.channel.send('2nd message')
await wait(5000)
message.channel.send('3rd message')
})