This technique was lifted directly from Alex McPherson's jQuery Conference 2012 presentation entitled "I .promise() to show you .when() to use Deferreds". The whole talk is great but I love this little snippet and had to share:
1 2 3 4 5 | $.wait = function(duration) {
return $.Deferred(function(def) {
setTimeout(def.resolve, duration);
})
}
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Usage:
1 | $.wait(1000).then(goMakeTea);
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The slides are available on GitHub.