An isomorphic setImmediate/setInterval/setTimeout implementation.

This package exists to smooth out differences between Node and the browser, and to clean up some nonsense.

• This library works everywhere, with the same API.
• setTimeout/setInterval don't return numbers under Node, this library eliminates that ugliness.
• setImmediate is not natively available in the browser, this library polyfills it.
• setImmediate will also return a number, for consistency.
• .ref/.unref methods are not browser functions, this library exposes dedicated functions for them.
• If the number of milliseconds is too high it would overflow, this library clamps it within the supported range.

npm install isotimer

Very similar APIs are available for setImmediate/setInterval/setTimeout.

The following code will just look at timeouts, for convenience, but they all work the same way basically.

import {setImmediate, clearImmediate, refImmediate, unrefImmediate} from 'isotimer'; import {setInterval, clearInterval, refInterval, unrefInterval} from 'isotimer'; import {setTimeout, clearTimeout, refTimeout, unrefTimeout} from 'isotimer'; // Let's schedule a timeout, which will always return us a number const timeoutId = setTimeout ( () => { console.log ( 'Hello' ); }, 1000 ); // Let's unref and ref it back again, just to show how to do it unrefTimeout ( timeoutId ); refTimeout ( timeoutId ); // Let's clear it clearTimeout ( timeoutId );

MIT © Fabio Spampinato