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delay

Delay a promise a specified amount of time

v7.0.0, 31 Oct 2025MITESM onlyTypes: BundledPromises and async control flow
$ npm install delay
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
4.9m
+12% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
2
Direct, from package.json
Last release
10 months ago
v7.0.0
GitHub stars
623
37 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 0
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
4

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
02.5m5m7.5m10mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 8.3m (3 Mar 2026)Low 2.7m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

4,925,736 downloads last week, 25,219,650 in the last month. The 12-month change of +12% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
119 in total
Latest version
7.0.0, 31 Oct 202510 months ago
First published
19 Jul 2012
Last push to GitHub
18 Sept 20266 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
4
Dependents on npm
1,773

Major versions

  1. v7 first release 7.0.0, 31 Oct 2025
  2. v6 first release 6.0.0, 21 May 2023
  3. v5 first release 5.0.0, 1 Feb 2021
  4. v4 first release 4.0.0, 3 Sept 2018
  5. v3 first release 3.0.0, 25 May 2018
  6. v2 first release 2.0.0, 22 Mar 2017
  7. v1 first release 1.0.0, 12 Nov 2015
  8. v0 first release 0.0.1, 19 Jul 2012

Recent releases

VersionPublished
7.0.031 Oct 2025
6.0.021 May 2023
5.0.01 Feb 2021
4.4.130 Jan 2021
4.4.018 Jul 2020
4.3.012 Jun 2019
4.2.08 Apr 2019
4.1.010 Oct 2018
4.0.110 Sept 2018
4.0.03 Sept 2018
3.1.020 Aug 2018
3.0.025 May 2018
2.0.022 Mar 2017
1.3.127 Dec 2015

Compatibility

Module format
ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=20
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
10 kB
Dependencies (2)
random-intunlimited-timeout

Install

npm install delay

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/delay@7.0.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/delay@7.0.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/delay@7.0.0

Alternatives

PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
@redux-saga/delay-p925.2k-11 months agoESM + CommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.