How can i put a loop in this server

Question

For example, something similar i want to do:

var http = require(\'http\');

const PORT=8080;
var myvar = \"Test: \";

function handleRequest(request, response){
         


        

Answer 1

If you just want to continuously process data, you can use the setInterval function, which will continuously call a function with a small interval between. This will give the rest of your code time to run.

// synchronous code, with a while loop
while(true) {
  // do something
}
// NOTE: anything after this never runs

// asynchronous code, with setInterval
setInterval(function() { 
  // do something
}, 10);

10 here is the number of milliseconds between each time the code is run. For most purposes (such as continuously reading for a pin), a small number (such as 10 milliseconds, or 100 times per second) should work fine.