v1.0.3 • Utils • 1kb gzipped • MIT
IdleTask
Schedule non-urgent work in idle time, with priorities and a deadline you can rely on.
// why idletask
Interaction stays first
Work yields back to the browser before the frame budget runs out, so scheduled tasks never cost you an input delay.
// stack
Priorities that mean something
Three levels, each with its own deadline, so background work cannot starve something a user is waiting on.
IdleTask started as a single file in a client project and stayed small on purpose. It does one job, it does it in 1kb gzipped, and it has no runtime dependencies.
Getting started
Install it, import it, call it:
npm i idletask-jsWork yields back to the browser before the frame budget runs out, so scheduled tasks never cost you an input delay.
What it does not do
It does not manage your state, style your components or ship a plugin system. Those are your decisions, and keeping them out is what keeps the bundle honest.
- Frame-budget aware
- Three priority lanes
- MIT licensed, commercially friendly
Features
Frame-budget aware
Yields before the frame deadline instead of after it.
Three priority lanes
Urgent, normal and background, each with a distinct starvation guard.
Documented properly
Every public function has a worked example, not just a signature.
ESM and types
Ships module and CommonJS builds with hand-written type definitions and source maps.
Tree-shakes cleanly
Every export is side-effect free, so importing one function costs one function.
Tested to the edges
Ninety-eight percent branch coverage, with the awkward cases written first.
Get IdleTask v1.0.3
6 files • .min.js 1kb • .zip 94kb • sha384 verified
Changelog
- Scheduler API used where available
- Starvation guard for background lane
- Now under 1kb
- Fixed a memory leak on repeated teardown
- Source maps now published with every build
- Type definitions rewritten by hand
- Dropped the last runtime dependency
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