const autoPlayer = (arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) => {
  // Base case:
  if (arr.length < 1) return

  // Remove the first element from the array.
  const item = arr.shift()

  // Set timout 
  setTimeout(() => {
    console.log('Hello, world!', item)  // Visualisation.
    autoPlayer() // Call function again.
  }, 1000) // Iterate every second.
}

Hey, I know this post is very old, but this code "loops" and adds a delay to it using a recursive method. I don't think you can 'actually' delay a loop itself from iterating based on reading various comments from other people. Maybe this can help someone out! Basically the function accepts an array (in this example). On each iteration the setTimeout Javascript method is called. The function calls itself again indefinitely when the timer of the setTimeout function expires, but on each call the array becomes smaller until it reaches the base-case. I hope this can help anyone else out.

/* 
  Use Recursive  and setTimeout 
  call below function will run loop loopFunctionNeedCheck until 
  conditionCheckAfterRunFn = true, if conditionCheckAfterRunFn == false : delay 
  reRunAfterMs miliseconds and continue loop
  tested code, thanks
*/

function functionRepeatUntilConditionTrue(reRunAfterMs, conditionCheckAfterRunFn,
 loopFunctionNeedCheck) {
    loopFunctionNeedCheck();
    var result = conditionCheckAfterRunFn();
    //check after run
    if (!result) {
        setTimeout(function () {
            functionRepeatUntilConditionTrue(reRunAfterMs, conditionCheckAfterRunFn, loopFunctionNeedCheck)
        }, reRunAfterMs);
    }
    else  console.log("completed, thanks");    
            //if you need call a function after completed add code call callback in here
}

//passing-parameters-to-a-callback-function
// From Prototype.js 
if (!Function.prototype.bind) { // check if native implementation available
    Function.prototype.bind = function () {
        var fn = this, args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments),
            object = args.shift();
        return function () {
            return fn.apply(object,
              args.concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)));
        };
    };
}

//test code: 
var result = 0; 
console.log("---> init result is " + result);
var functionNeedRun = function (step) {           
   result+=step;    
       console.log("current result is " + result);  
}
var checkResultFunction = function () {
    return result==100;
}  

//call this function will run loop functionNeedRun and delay 500 miliseconds until result=100    
functionRepeatUntilConditionTrue(500, checkResultFunction , functionNeedRun.bind(null, 5));

//result log from console:
/*
---> init result is 0
current result is 5
undefined
current result is 10
current result is 15
current result is 20
current result is 25
current result is 30
current result is 35
current result is 40
current result is 45
current result is 50
current result is 55
current result is 60
current result is 65
current result is 70
current result is 75
current result is 80
current result is 85
current result is 90
current result is 95
current result is 100
completed, thanks
*/

   let counter =1;
   for(let item in items) {
        counter++;
        setTimeout(()=>{
          //your code
        },counter*5000); //5Sec delay between each iteration
    }

如果使用ES6，你可以使用for循环来实现:

For(令I = 1;I < 10;我+ +){ setTimeout(函数定时器(){ console.log(“hello world”); }， I * 3000); ｝

它为每次迭代声明i，这意味着超时是+ 1000之前的超时。这样，传递给setTimeout的就是我们想要的。

您可以创建一个承诺setTimeout的睡眠函数。这使您可以使用async/await来编写代码，而无需回调和熟悉的for循环控制流。

const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); (async () => { 对于(设I = 0;I < 10;我+ +){ console.log(我); 等待睡眠(1000); ｝ console.log(“完成”); }) ();

在Node中，你可以使用计时器/承诺来避免承诺步骤(如果旧版本的Node不支持该功能，上面的代码也可以工作):

const {setTimeout: sleep} = require("timers/promises");

// same code as above

无论如何，由于JS是单线程的，超时是异步的是一件好事。如果不这样做，浏览器就没有机会重新绘制UI，从而导致用户的界面冻结。

试试这个…

var icount=0;
for (let i in items) {
   icount=icount+1000;
   new beginCount(items[i],icount);
}

function beginCount(item,icount){
  setTimeout(function () {

   new actualFunction(item,icount);

 }, icount);
}

function actualFunction(item,icount){
  //...runs ever 1 second
 console.log(icount);
}