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This plugin allows for easier timer and callback management with named timer handles.

Note that you can use this plugin in a jQuery context, or a Node.js context with the following:

const namedTimers = require("named-timers");

namedTimers().createTimer("regularTimer").startTimer(5000,
    function() {
        // do some work...
        // ...
    }
);

namedTimers("regularTimer").stopTimer();

namedTimers().createTimer("oneOffTimer", true).startTimer(5000,
    function() {
        // do some work...
        // ...
    }
);

You can also just work with the NamedTimerCollection returned by the named-timers module export when called with no parameters:

const namedTimers = require("named-timers")();

namedTimers.getTimer("regularTimer").setTimerCallback(function() {
    // do different work...
    // ...
});

If using Browserify, you can also extend an existing jQuery object with this plugin by passing it in instead of a timer name:

var $ = require("jquery");
require("named-timers")($);

$('#someElement').namedTimers().createTimer("timer123").startTimer(...

For more information, please visit the plugin's homepage at: http://gooeysoftware.com/jsplugins/named-timers/