How to terminate endless while loop via setTimeout in Javascript

Question

I have a piece of code with while loop which I would like to stop by setTimeout(). But it seems like a endless loop, which never triggers setTimeout(). If I remove while loop, timeout triggers correctly. What is wrong please?

$(document).ready(function() 
{
    var i = 0, s = false;

    setTimeout( function()
    {
        s = true;
        console.log( "Timeuot!!!" );
        console.log( "s value is " + s );
    }, 1000 );

    while( s === false )
    {
        console.log( "this is while and s is " + s );
        i++;
    }

    console.log( "iterations: " + i );
});

Answer 1

JavaScript runs a single event loop. It won't stop in the middle of a function to see if there are any events (such as clicks or timeouts) that would trigger a different function.

In short: It won't run the timed function until the while loop has finished.

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To do this sort of thing, you'd normally have an event driven iterator.

 var i = 0, s = false; setTimeout(function() { s = true; console.log("Timeuot!!!"); console.log("s value is " + s); }, 1000); next(); function next() { if (s) { return done(); } console.log({ s, i }); i++; setTimeout(next, 0); } function done() { console.log("iterations: " + i); } 

Answer 2

As already mentioned the while loop blocks the one and only thread. To let your example do the thing you want, replace the while loop with setInterval(function) like this:

$(document).ready(function() 
{
    var i = 0, s = false;

    setTimeout( function()
    {
        s = true;
        console.log( "Timeout!!!" );
        console.log( "s value is " + s );
    }, 1000 );


    var interval = setInterval(function() {
      console.log( "this is while and s is " + s );
      i++;      
      if (s) {
        clearInterval(interval);
        console.log("i is " + i)
      }
    }, 100);    
});

Answer 3

setTimeout不会被调用，因为while永远不会结束，因此偶数调度程序不会触发setTimeout。