backo v1.1.0

backo

Simple exponential backoff because the others seem to have weird abstractions.

Installation

$ npm install backo

Options

• min initial timeout in milliseconds 100
• max max timeout 10000
• jitter 0
• factor 2

Example

var Backoff = require('backo');
var backoff = new Backoff({ min: 100, max: 20000 });

setTimeout(function(){
  something.reconnect();
}, backoff.duration());

// later when something works
backoff.reset()

License

MIT