No I didn't try smaller ones, this was the first one I tried, and it worked.

Shall I lower this timeout?

Were you able to repro the problem in the first place? Like I said, I'll take it if it works.

But generally speaking the less funky stuff we have in our codebase the better. setTimeout(0) is very clear what it's doing. setTimeout(1) less clear. setTimeout(5000) seems pretty arbitrary. I'm not making a fuss, since this is a build script, but wanted to raise it. Guessing you already know all this, but it never hurts to overcommunicate. 😄

Yes I was able to reproduce.

I tested this twice on my local machine.

A 5 second delay was arbitrary, testing takes minutes, so after finding that the 5 second timeout worked, I was happy.