I'm writing an application that utilizes JavaScript timeouts and intervals to update the page. Is there a way to see how many intervals are setup? I want to make sure that I'm not accidentally going to kill the browser by having hundreds of intervals setup.
Is this even an issue?
I don't think there is a way to enumerate active timers, but you could override window.setTimeout and window.clearTimeout and replace them with your own implementations which do some tracking and then call the originals.
window.originalSetTimeout=window.setTimeout;
window.originalClearTimeout=window.clearTimeout;
window.activeTimers=0;
window.setTimeout=function(func,delay)
{
window.activeTimers++;
return window.originalSetTimeout(func,delay);
};
window.clearTimeout=function(timerID)
{
window.activeTimers--;
window.originalClearTimeout(timerID);
};
Of course, you might not always call clearTimeout, but this would at least give you some way to track what is happening at runtime.
I made a Chrome DevTools extension that shows all intervals. Cleared ones are greyed out.
setInterval-sniffer
Seeing as Paul has only covered setTimeout I thought I would share a counter for setInterval/clearInterval.
window.originalSetInterval = window.setInterval;
window.originalClearInterval = window.clearInterval;
window.activeIntervals = 0;
window.setInterval = function (func, delay)
{
if(func && delay){
window.activeIntervals++;
}
return window.originalSetInterval(func,delay);
};
window.clearInterval = function (intervalId)
{
// JQuery sometimes hands in true which doesn't count
if(intervalId !== true){
window.activeIntervals--;
}
return window.originalClearInterval(intervalId);
};
Instead of just have a count of timers, here is an implementation which stores all timerid's into an array. It only shows active timers while the accepted answer only counts calls to setTimeout
& clearTimeout
.
(function(w) {
var oldST = w.setTimeout;
var oldSI = w.setInterval;
var oldCI = w.clearInterval;
var timers = [];
w.timers = timers;
w.setTimeout = function(fn, delay) {
var id = oldST(function() {
fn && fn();
removeTimer(id);
}, delay);
timers.push(id);
return id;
};
w.setInterval = function(fn, delay) {
var id = oldSI(fn, delay);
timers.push(id);
return id;
};
w.clearInterval = function(id) {
oldCI(id);
removeTimer(id);
};
w.clearTimeout = w.clearInterval;
function removeTimer(id) {
var index = timers.indexOf(id);
if (index >= 0)
timers.splice(index, 1);
}
}(window));
This is how you can get the count of active timers on the page:
timers.length;
This is how you can remove all active timers:
for(var i = timers.length; i--;)
clearInterval(timers[i]);
Known limitations:
- You can only pass a function (not a string) to
setTimeout
with this monkey patch.
- The function assumes
clearInterval
and clearTimeout
do the same, which they do but it could change in the future.
We've just published a package solving this exact issue.
npm install time-events-manager
With that, you can view and manage them via timeoutCollection
object (and javascript's intervals viaintervalCollection
object).
timeoutCollection.getScheduled();
timeoutCollection.getCompleted();
timeoutCollection.getAll();
I just needed something like this and this is what I've put together:
window.setInterval = function (window, setInterval) {
if (!window.timers) {
window.timers = {};
}
if (!window.timers.intervals) {
window.timers.intervals = {};
}
if (!window.timers.intervals.active) {
window.timers.intervals.active = {};
}
return function (func, interval) {
var id = setInterval(func, interval);
window.timers.intervals.active[id] = func;
return id;
}
}(window, window.setInterval);
window.clearInterval = function (window, clearInterval) {
if (!window.timers) {
window.timers = {};
}
if (!window.timers.intervals) {
window.timers.intervals = {};
}
if (!window.timers.intervals.inactive) {
window.timers.intervals.inactive = {};
}
return function (id) {
if (window.timers.intervals.active && window.timers.intervals.active[id]) {
window.timers.intervals.inactive[id] = window.timers.intervals.active[id];
clearInterval(id);
delete window.timers.intervals.active[id];
}
}
}(window, window.clearInterval);
This records the interval ids along with their functions, and also keeps track of their status (active/inactive).