guard-timeout

Guard against sleep mode timeouts firing on wake

About

If a process goes into a sleep mode (for instance a laptop hibernates, or a service is put into inspect mode) then timeouts may trigger on wake. Depending on your use case (think distributed systems) you might not want to trigger a timeout if process uptime hasn't actually occurred in that period.

The guard-timeout module will check if there is a significant lag (default 1s) between when the timeout was scheduled to fire and when it actually fired.

Install

$ npm i guard-timeout

Usage

const setTimeout = require('guard-timeout')
 
// if the timeout is 1 second late, 
// it will be reschedule for another 20 minutes
 
setTimeout(
  () => { console.log('do something') }, 
  1.2e+6 // 20 minutes
)

Advanced Usage

Configure your own safe timeout:

const setTimeout = require('guard-timeout').create({
  lagMs: 60 * 1000 // 1 minute lag
})
 
// if the timeout is 1 minute late, 
// it will be reschedule for another 20 minutes
 
setTimeout(
  () => { console.log('do something') }, 
  1.2e+6 // 20 minutes
)

Await Usage

guard-timeout has util.promisify support:

const { promisify } = require('util')
const timeout = promisify(require('guard-timeout'))
 
async function run () {
  // if the timeout is 1 second late, 
  // it will be reschedule for another 20 minutes
  await timeout(1.2e+6) // 20 minutes
  console.log('do something')
}
 
run().catch(console.error)

API

require('guard-timeout') => setTimeout (cb, time, ...args) => instance

The default export of guard-timeout a is safe setTimeout function with a default lagMs option of 1000 (one second).

require('guard-timeout').create(opts) => setTimeout (cb, time, ...args) => instance

Create a custom safe setTimeout function by passing in options

instance.close()

Clears the timeout

instance.timeout

A getter property which holds current underlying timeout object (or numerical ID in the browser).

Options

• lagMs – Number, default: 1000. The allowable delta between when a timeout should fire and when it actually fires, in milliseconds. If this is exceeded then the timeout is rescheduled.
• rescheduler - Function, default: (t, instance) => t. A mapping function to calculate when the timeout should be rescheduled for. It takes two args, the time that the timeout was scheduled for and the timeout instance returned from guard-timeout (which comes Node's native setTimeout). The instance argument can be used to apply specific reschedule times to specific timeouts. The return value should be a number representing milliseconds for the rescheduled timeout.

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

Author

David Mark Clements

• github/davidmarkclements
• twitter/davidmarkclem

License

Copyright © 2020 David Mark Clements Licensed under the MIT license.