@actualwave/promised-timeout

Set of functions that return promise which will be resolved after a specific timeout. It best suited to use with async/await.

import timeout from '@actualwave/promised-timeout';

async function test() {
    console.log('Before');
    
    await timeout(1000);
    
    console.log('After a second');
}

Installation

Via NPM

npm install @actualwave/promised-timeout --save

Or yarn

yarn add @actualwave/promised-timeout

API

Functions available

• timeout() -- Present as default or named export, resolves after specified number of milliseconds
• aTick -- Returns a promise which resolves on next tick
• aQuarterSecond -- Returns a promise which resolves after a quarter of second
• aHalfSecond -- Returns a promise which resolves after a half of second
• aSecond -- Returns a promise which resolves after a second
• aQuarterMinute -- Returns a promise which resolves after a quarter of minute
• aHalfMinute -- Returns a promise which resolves after a half of minute
• aMinute -- Returns a promise which resolves after a minute
• aQuarterHour -- Returns a promise which resolves aftera quarter of hour
• aHalfHour -- Returns a promise which resolves after a half of hour
• anHour -- Returns a promise which resolves after an hour

These functions with predefined timeouts should cover majority of timeout() usages:

import { aSecond, aTick } from '@actualwave/promised-timeout';

async function test() {
    console.log('Before');
    
    await aSecond();
    
    console.log('After a second');
    
    await aTick();
    
    console.log('Next tick');
}

Constants available

• QUARTER_SECOND -- 250, quarter of second in milliseconds
• HALF_SECOND -- 500, half of second in milliseconds
• SECOND -- 1000, second in milliseconds
• QUARTER_MINUTE -- 15000, quarter of minute in milliseconds
• HALF_MINUTE -- 30000, half of minute in milliseconds
• MINUTE -- 60000, minute in milliseconds
• QUARTER_HOUR -- 900000, quarter of hour in milliseconds
• HALF_HOUR -- 1800000, half of hour in milliseconds
• HOUR -- 3600000, an hour in milliseconds

Constants can be used with timeout() function.

import timeout, { SECOND } from '@actualwave/promised-timeout';

async function test() {
    console.log('Before');
    
    await timeout(SECOND);
    
    console.log('After a second');
}