Ability to run the timer in smaller intervals (500ms)

Hi,

I had a use case where I needed to run a timer in 1.5 seconds and saw that it was running every second because of the setInterval that is set to run each 1000ms.

I was wondering whether there is a reason not to support that? I could work on adding that myself.

Thanks!

[rafmsou]

Hi @amrlabib , no, its not that. I’ll try to give you a concrete example:

If you try to run a task in 1.5 seconds from now, it will actually run in 1 second from now. If you try to run a task in 500 milliseconds it will run in 1 second.

That’s because the min interval in which tasks are checked is fixed in 1000ms (1 sec). So, any task that needs to run in a not rounded number of seconds will not get executed in the correct moment.

If you accept a custom parameter for the min interval, it will work, however there’s more things that might need to change because some places assumes the number of seconds is round (or it gets rounded/floored).

I would say that the goal here would be to make it possible to run timers in intervals less than a second (100ms, 300ms, 500ms) accurately.

Does that makes sense?

[yoiang]

Haha I have a similar request, except that I’d love to be able to get sub-seconds (milliseconds) from useStopwatch! Maybe by specifying an update interval…?

Happy to make a PR, just checking if you already know a quick change or any gotchas before I try my hand!