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Overview

Adds support for the timers module to browserify.

Wait, isn't it already supported in the browser?

The public methods of the timers module are:

  • setTimeout(callback, delay, [arg], [...])
  • clearTimeout(timeoutId)
  • setInterval(callback, delay, [arg], [...])
  • clearInterval(intervalId)

and indeed, browsers support these already.

So, why does this exist?

The timers module also includes some private methods used in other built-in Node.js modules:

  • enroll(item, delay)
  • unenroll(item)
  • active(item)

These are used to efficiently support a large quantity of timers with the same timeouts by creating only a few timers under the covers.

Node.js also offers the immediate APIs, which aren't yet available cross-browser, so we polyfill those:

  • setImmediate(callback, [arg], [...])
  • clearImmediate(immediateId)

I need lots of timers and want to use linked list timers as Node.js does.

Linked lists are efficient when you have thousands (millions?) of timers with the same delay. Take a look at timers-browserify-full in this case.

License

MIT

# Overview

Adds support for the `timers` module to browserify.

## Wait, isn't it already supported in the browser?

The public methods of the `timers` module are:

* `setTimeout(callback, delay, [arg], [...])`
* `clearTimeout(timeoutId)`
* `setInterval(callback, delay, [arg], [...])`
* `clearInterval(intervalId)`

and indeed, browsers support these already.

## So, why does this exist?

The `timers` module also includes some private methods used in other built-in
Node.js modules:

* `enroll(item, delay)`
* `unenroll(item)`
* `active(item)`

These are used to efficiently support a large quantity of timers with the same
timeouts by creating only a few timers under the covers.

Node.js also offers the `immediate` APIs, which aren't yet available cross-browser, so we polyfill those:

* `setImmediate(callback, [arg], [...])`
* `clearImmediate(immediateId)`

## I need lots of timers and want to use linked list timers as Node.js does.

Linked lists are efficient when you have thousands (millions?) of timers with the same delay.
Take a look at [timers-browserify-full](https://www.npmjs.com/package/timers-browserify-full) in this case.

# License

[MIT](http://jryans.mit-license.org/)
# Change User Description Committed
#1 19553 swellard Move and rename clients
//guest/perforce_software/helix-web-services/main/source/clients/2016.1.0/javascript/node_modules/timers-browserify/README.md
#1 18810 tjuricek First-pass at JavaScript client SDK.

JavaScript requires Node with Gulp to "browserfy" the library. It's the easiest way I found to use the swagger-js project; bundle up a wrapping method.

There is no JavaScript reference guide. The swagger-js doesn't really document what they do very well, actually.

Overall I'm not particularly impressed by swagger-js, it was hard to even figure out what the right method syntax was. We may want to invest time in doing it better.

This required setting CORS response headers, which are currently defaulted to a fairly insecure setting.