I’m working on a JavaScript project where I need to delay a fetch request. However, due to some project constraints, I can’t use setTimeout or setInterval. I’m aware that these are the usual methods for delaying execution in JavaScript, but I need an alternative approach.

I’ve considered using Promise or busy-waiting with a while loop, but these methods are not ideal as they either still use setTimeout under the hood or block the execution of other code.

Here’s a basic example of the kind of operation I’m trying to perform:

async function delayedFetch(url, delayTime) {
  // Need to delay here without using setTimeout or setInterval
  const response = await fetch(url);
  const data = await response.json();
  return data;
}

delayedFetch('https://api.example.com/data', 2000)
  .then(data => console.log(data));