Request Idle Callback Shim

For more information refer to Using requestIdleCallback

Install

npm install request-idle-callback

Example

var ric = require('request-idle-callback')
// Executes myNonEssentialWork duting idle time on each frame or fallbacks to using setTimeout to run at most 50ms per frame
ric.requestIdleCallback(myNonEssentialWork);

function myNonEssentialWork (deadline) {
  while (deadline.timeRemaining() > 0)
    doWorkIfNeeded();
}

API

requestIdleCallback(callback(deadline))

deadline is an object containing:

• deadline.didTimeout boolean indicating if it is still time to deadline.
• deadline.timeRemaining function that returns remaining time.

cancelIdleCallback(id)

Removes callback from the queue or calls clearTimeout.

Tests

node tests.js

Licencia

MIT