Delaying actions using Decentraland's ECS

Question

How do I make an action occur with a delay, but after a timeout?

The setTimeout() function doesn’t work in Decentraland scenes, so is there an alternative?

For example, I want an entity to wait 300 milliseconds after it’s clicked before I remove it from the engine.

Answer 1

A few years late, but the OP's selected answer is kind of deprecated because you can accomplish a delay doing:

import { Delay } from "node_modules/decentraland-ecs-utils/timer/component/delay"

const ent = new Entity
ent.addComponent(new Delay(3 * 1000, () => {
    // this code will run when time is up
}))

Read the docs.