SimpleTicker

A self-correcting emitter of periodical events

yarn add simple-ticker

Simple example

import Ticker from 'simple-ticker'
const ticker = new Ticker(100)

console.time('tick')
ticker.init().on('tick', () => {
  console.timeEnd('tick')
  console.time('tick')
})

/*
  tick: 100.467ms
  tick: 99.607ms
  tick: 100.485ms
    ...
*/

Optional arguments

import Ticker from 'simple-ticker'
const ticker = new Ticker(
  100, // target tick interval
  200, // init tick interval (default = targer tick interval)
  40)  // reduce step (default = targe tick interval)

console.time('tick')
ticker.init().on('tick', () => {
  console.timeEnd('tick')
  console.time('tick')
})

/*
  tick: 200.391ms
  tick: 160.210ms
  tick: 120.755ms
  tick: 100.517ms
  tick: 100.342ms
  tick: 100.856ms
  ...
*/

Methods

import Ticker from 'simple-ticker'
const ticker = new Ticker(100)

console.time('tick')
ticker.init().on('tick', () => {
  console.timeEnd('tick')
  console.time('tick')
  ticker.kill().init()
})

/*
  tick: 101.631ms
  tick: 100.629ms
  tick: 101.642ms
  tick: 100.413ms
  ...
*/