after-every

after-every

This package allows you to run a function after a time interval of seconds, minutes, hours or days. The function is created to run after the time in millisecond becomes 0. For example, the seconds will run after the time in milliseconds becomes 0. The minute function will run after the time in seconds becomes 0, and so on.

This is useful for projects that need to run a function as the second or minute changes.

Installation & Importing

npm install after-every

or

yarn add after-every

then import the module like either of the two ways below depending on your project

// Import statements
import AfterEvery from "after-every"

// Require statements
const AfterEvery = require("after-every").default

Usage

To create a timer that runs every 5 minutes, all I have to do is this

AfterEvery(5).minutes(date => {
	console.log("I run every 5 minutes")
}) 

It works the same way for all other time durations

AfterEvery(1).seconds(date => {})
AfterEvery(5).minutes(date => {})
AfterEvery(10).hours(date => {})
AfterEvery(7).days(date => {})

To clear the timeout, just call the function again

const timer = AfterEvery(1).seconds(date => console.log(`A second passed!, now it's ${date.getSeconds()} seconds`))
setTimeout(() => {
	timer()
}, 3000)

// > Output
// A second passed! now it's 1 seconds
// A second passed! now it's 2 seconds
// A second passed! now it's 3 seconds

Fixing AfterEvery().days() with set_timezone()

AfterEvery().days() runs every time UTC hours strikes 0. Since the timezone your run your code in might be different from that of UTC, there is a function for your to set your custom timezone so that AfterEvery().days() runs when your timezone days starts

import { set_timezone } from "after-every"

set_timezone(8)  // For UTC+08:00
set_timezone(-3) // For UTC-03:00