Overview

Adds support for the timers module to browserify.

Wait, isn't it already supported in the browser?

The public methods of the timers module are:

* setTimeout(callback, delay, [arg], [...])
* clearTimeout(timeoutId)
* setInterval(callback, delay, [arg], [...])
* clearInterval(intervalId)

and indeed, browsers support these already.

So, why does this exist?

The timers module also includes some private methods used in other built-in
Node.js modules:

* enroll(item, delay)
* unenroll(item)
* active(item)

These are used to efficiently support a large quantity of timers with the same
timeouts by creating only a few timers under the covers.

Node.js also offers the immediate APIs, which aren't yet available cross-browser, so we polyfill those:

* setImmediate(callback, [arg], [...])
* clearImmediate(immediateId)

I need lots of timers and want to use linked list timers as Node.js does.

Linked lists are efficient when you have thousands (millions?) of timers with the same delay.
Take a look at timers-browserify-full in this case.

License

MIT