vartimer

Simple setInterval() function allowing a list of intervals.

Installation

npm install --save vartimer

Usage

var timer = require('vartimer');

var t = timer.run(function (x, y, z, ..) {
  // Code to be executed
}, delay, arg1, arg2, arg3, ..)

where delay may be one of

• delay in milliseconds (number),
• a list of delays,
• a function returning whole number.

To stop the timer use timer.clear(t).

A list of delays is interpreted left-to-right. When the list is exhausted its last element is used for all consecutive timeouts.

Motivation

Sometimes you want setInterval(cb, delay) to call cb immediately and then start repeating:

timer.run(cb, [0, delay]);

Sometimes you want to use different delay for a first call (if you continue a schedule after restart or something):

timer.run(cb, [delay1, delay2]);

First time cb will be called after delay1 milliseconds and then repeatedly with delay2 ms interval.

License

MIT