json-server provides a convenient way to introduce delays in responses through the command line:
json-server --port 4000 --delay 1000 db.json
However, when attempting to achieve the same delayed response using json-server as a module, the following code snippet fails to work:
const jsonServer = require('json-server')
var server = jsonServer.create();
server.use(jsonServer.defaults());
server.use(jsonServer.router("db.json"));
server.use(function(req, res, next) {
setTimeout(next, 1000);
});
server.listen(4000);
Surprisingly, the setTimeout function is completely ignored and doesn't execute as expected.