Javascript: A better alternative to setInterval – My little pasture on the web.

setInterval can be bad js because of its nature to continuously get called rather the methods inside is lagging or not.

setInterval(function() {
	doStuff..
}, 100)

A better approach is to use a self executing anonymous function.

(function() {
	
	doStuff..

	setTimeout(arguments.callee, 100)
})();

The only problem is that arguments.callee is deprecated so a work around is to name the anonymous function.

(function blah() {
	
	doStuff..

	setTimeout(blah, 100)
})();

Author: mark

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