promised-timeout

For limiting the time to resolve a promise.

This is a light weight open source package, written with TypeScript. The source code is available on GitHub where you can also find our issue tracker.

Related Projects

• promised-debounce: For debounced function execution.

Motivation

Using the native Promise.race method for implementing the Promise.timeout function is not sufficient. The Promise.race doesn't clear the timer of the timeout promise after the actual promise resolves thus the process will wait until the timeout promise is also complete. This means that if you set the timeout to 1h and our promise completes after 1min, the process will wait for another 59min before it exits.

Install

$ npm install --save promised-timeout

Example

1import { timeout } from 'promised-timeout';
2
3await timeout({
4  action: () => new Promise(), // your promise here
5  time: 100,
6  error: new Error('operation timeout')
7});

API

timeout({ action, timeout, error }):Promise

A timeout helper function resolves the provider promise but rejects if the operation takes too long.

Option	Type	Required	Default	Description
action	Function,Promise	Yes	-	A Promise object to resolve.
time	Integer	No	0	A time in milliseconds after the operation automatically rejects (0 disables the timeout).
error	Error	No	new Error()	A custom error object to pass to the reject handler.

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Kristijan Sedlak <xpepermint@gmail.com>

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