create a synchronous function that gets the clipboard value and set it to local storage with a timeout in javascript

index.tsx
function saveClipboardToLocalStorageWithTimeout() {
  const clipboardValue = navigator.clipboard.readText();
  const localStorageKey = 'clipboardValue';
  setTimeout(() => {
    localStorage.setItem(localStorageKey, clipboardValue);
  }, 1000);
}
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Explanation:

  1. We define a function called saveClipboardToLocalStorageWithTimeout.
  2. The function uses the navigator.clipboard API to read the text from the clipboard and stores it in a variable called clipboardValue.
  3. We also define a variable called localStorageKey to hold the key where the clipboard value is going to be saved in local storage.
  4. We use setTimeout to set a timeout of one second (1000 milliseconds).
  5. Inside the setTimeout callback function, we use the setItem method of the localStorage object to save the clipboardValue in local storage using the localStorageKey as the key.
  6. Since the function uses the clipboard API, it can only work in modern browsers that support the API.

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