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A tour of JavaScript timers on the web (via) By Nolan Lawson. Do you understand the differences between setTimeout, setInterval, setImmediate, requestAnimationFrame and requestIdleCallback? I didn't.

Posted 2nd September 2018 at 10:10 am

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