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Mastering JavaScript

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Explore and master modern JavaScript techniques in order to build large-scale web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281341
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ved Antani Ved Antani
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Preface 1. JavaScript Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Functions, Closures, and Modules 3. Data Structures and Manipulation 4. Object-Oriented JavaScript 5. JavaScript Patterns 6. Testing and Debugging 7. ECMAScript 6 8. DOM Manipulation and Events 9. Server-Side JavaScript Index

Timers


Timers are used to schedule the execution of a particular callback after a specific delay. There are two primary methods to set up such delayed execution: setTimeout and setInterval. The setTimeout() function is used to schedule the execution of a specific callback after a delay, while setInterval is used to schedule the repeated execution of a callback. The setTimeout function is useful to perform tasks that need to be scheduled such as housekeeping. Consider the following example:

setTimeout(function() {
  console.log("This is just one time delay");
},1000);
var count=0;
var t = setInterval(function() {
  count++;
  console.log(count);
  if (count> 5){
    clearInteval(t);
  }
}, 2000 );

First, we are using setTimeout() to execute a callback (the anonymous function) after a delay of 1,000 ms. This is just a one-time schedule for this callback. We scheduled the repeated execution of the callback using setInterval(). Note that we are assigning the value returned by setInterval()...

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