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){ clearInterval(t); } }, 2000 );
First, we are using setTimeout()
to execute a callback (the anonymous ...
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