How to start a second timer in Vuex when the first timer expires?

Question

I have a Vue project with the following status in Vuex storage:

state: {
  gameStartTimer: 5,
  counter: false,
  randomNumber: Number,
  clickAlert: false
}

Now, in actions, I have the following:

actions: {
    async startCounter({ state }) {
      state.counter = true;
      state.clickAlert = false;
      while (state.gameStartTimer > 0 && state.counter) {

        // 这将定时器设置为从5倒数到0
        await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
        if (state.counter)
          state.gameStartTimer--;

        // if语句确保在gameStartTimer达到0时获取nowTime
        if (state.gameStartTimer == 0) {
          let timeNow = new Date().getTime();
          state.nowTime = timeNow;
        }
      }
      state.counter = false;

      // 我想在这里启动第二个定时器，每秒倒计时一次，直到randomNumber状态达到0
        await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
        if (state.clickAlert)
          state.randomNumber--;

        if (state.randomNumber == 0) {
          state.clickAlert = true;
        }
      }

    },
}

The problem I'm facing is that the first timer is wrapped in a while loop, which is exactly what I want, so that the game starts at 5 and counts down to 0.

Then I want the second timer (using randomNumber as duration) to run in the background and then set the clickAlert state to true.

However, I cannot make the second timer run in the async/await method. I'm not quite sure what the syntax or logic issue is.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The obvious solution seems to be to put the second timer also in a while loop.

while (state.randomNumber > 0) {
    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
    state.randomNumber--;

    if (state.randomNumber === 0) {
        state.clickAlert = true;
    }
}

async/await is just a way to avoid callback functions. It is functionally equivalent to the following code:

while (state.randomNumber > 0) {
    setTimeout(() => {
        state.randomNumber--;
    }, 1000);
}