set-immediate-shim
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Package description
The set-immediate-shim package provides a cross-environment implementation of `setImmediate`, a method for scheduling tasks to be executed after the current event loop tick. This is particularly useful in environments where `setImmediate` is not natively supported, such as in certain browsers or older versions of Node.js. The package ensures that developers can use `setImmediate` functionality consistently across different platforms.
Scheduling tasks
This feature allows you to schedule tasks to be executed after the current event loop tick. It's useful for deferring execution without resorting to `setTimeout(fn, 0)`, which can have different behaviors across environments.
require('set-immediate-shim');
setImmediate(() => {
console.log('This runs after the current event loop tick.');
});core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, which includes polyfills for ECMAScript up to 2021. It offers a `setImmediate` polyfill among many others, providing a broader scope of functionality compared to set-immediate-shim. While set-immediate-shim focuses solely on `setImmediate`, core-js covers a wide range of ECMAScript features, making it a more comprehensive solution for cross-environment compatibility.
The process package is a browserify implementation of the Node.js 'process' module, which includes a nextTick method that can be used similarly to `setImmediate` for queuing tasks after the current event loop tick. While `setImmediate` and `process.nextTick` have slightly different use cases and behaviors, the process package provides a similar functionality for environments where `setImmediate` is not available. It's more focused on mimicking Node.js environment capabilities in non-Node.js environments.
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Simple
setImmediateponyfill
Note: This shim is quite inefficient.
npm install set-immediate-shim
import setImmediateShim from 'set-immediate-shim';
setImmediateShim(() => {
console.log('2');
});
console.log('1');
//=> 1
//=> 2
setImmediate()FAQs
Simple setImmediate shim
The npm package set-immediate-shim receives a total of 1,368,210 weekly downloads. As such, set-immediate-shim popularity was classified as popular.
We found that set-immediate-shim demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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