fernandedios / tickedoff

Tiny library (<200B gzip) for deferring something by a "tick"

tickedoff

Tiny library (<200B gzip) for deferring something by a "tick"

• Using setTimeout is actually a bit slow because its clamped to 4ms
• setImmediate is not available in most places (and probably never will be)
• process.nextTick is only in Node
• Promise#then needs polyfills in places
• tickedoff uses whatever the best available option is
• There are more robust libraries/polyfills but they are larger in size
• This is all especially good for libraries to use

Install

yarn add tickedoff

Usage

const defer = require('tickedoff');

console.log(1);
defer(() => console.log(3));
console.log(2);
// 1
// 2
// 3

Perf

$ node perf.js
process.nextTick x 10000 = 24ms
Promise#then x 10000 = 29ms
setImmediate x 10000 = 68ms
setTimeout x 10000 = 13506ms