approx

Synopsis

If you'd like to do something every 10 seconds, you'd do something like this (or rather, use setInterval instead):

1function something() {
2  // ...
3  setTimeout(something, 10 * 1000)
4}
5
6// kick it off
7something()

But if you'd like to do something approximately every 10s:

1var approx = require('approx')
2
3function something() {
4    // ...
5    setTimeout(something, approx(10 * 1000))
6}
7
8// kick it off
9something()

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.

Author

Written by Andrew Chilton:

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License

MIT - http://chilts.mit-license.org/2015/

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