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If you'd like to do something every 10 seconds, you'd do something like this (or rather, use setInterval
instead):
function something() {
// ...
setTimeout(something, 10 * 1000)
}
// kick it off
something()
But if you'd like to do something approximately every 10s:
var approx = require('approx')
function something() {
// ...
setTimeout(something, approx(10 * 1000))
}
// kick it off
something()
This will run something()
approximately every 10 seconds. ie. it will run somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds,
determined by Math.random()
.
Currently there is only one algorithm included in this package but could be expanded to provide more in the future.
Written by Andrew Chilton:
MIT - http://chilts.mit-license.org/2015/
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FAQs
Give me an approximate number around this one (for setTimeout/setInterval etc).
The npm package approx receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, approx popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that approx demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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