Making persistent and smooth visual timer

[sdetweil]

@kiina u don’t HAVE to start from scratch every time. if u have content created then save a pointer to it and return that…

why is it trying to update?

timer u have running

just change the part that changed

[Kiina]

@sdetweil Yeah I just realized I had the setInterval to update the DOM in there and never questioned why I put it there and had kinda forgotten about it. Maybe I should refactor so it only updates the dom when it really gets new information, it has been 4 years since I wrote that part of the module…

Another small issue

getScripts: function() {
		return [ "node_modules/progressbar.js/dist/progressbar.min.js"];
	},

doesn’t seem to load. The file exists, I have it in my package.json. When i do like a cp node_modules/progressbar.js/dist/progressbar.min.js ./

and

getScripts: function() {
		return [ "progressbar.min.js"];
	},

it works fine, but not when it’s in the node_modules folder? It tries to load the upper node_modules folder I think so

getScripts: function() {
		return ["modules/moduleName/node_modules/progressbar.js/dist/progressbar.min.js"];
	},

works fine but is probably not the best solution in case the module name changes.

Plus it doesn’t seem like the domUpdate has a callback when it finished. Would be nice so I can load the progressbar when the dom container exists, instead of relying on setTimeout and praying for the best.

[sdetweil]

@kiina this.file(node-modules…/filename) will give you the total path

Would be nice so I can load the progressbar when the dom container exists, instead of relying on setTimeout and praying for the best.

please explain a little better,… load the progressbar when the dom container exists

u can use
document.getElementByClassName(className)
or
document.getElementById(id)

so u can know if it exists…

it won’t til you pass thru getdom once probably

[sdetweil]

@kiina said in Making persistent and smooth visual timer:

pairing code for the oauth only has a 10 minute lifetim

and, why couldn’t you refresh under the cover for them???

I do that for some apps that have refresh tokens… timer for time_to_live -5 or 10 seconds

refresh
restart timer

[Kiina]

@sdetweil said in Making persistent and smooth visual timer:

u can use
document.getElementByClassName(className)
or
document.getElementById(id)

so u can know it it exists…

it won’t til you pass thru getdom once probably

That’s what im doing. The issue is that without a callback from the getDOM you would probably have to loop that part.

Following flow: The node_helper sends the socketnotification with the code for authentification. The dom updates to show this auth code and adds the div for the timer. When I call

this.updateDom();
initializeTimer();

I will get that the current element with the id doesn’t exist since the initializeTimer executes before the dom is ready. So I would need to loop that until the dom is ready to add the timer onto it. Which is obviously a terrible idea. So having a callback or a promise would make that a lot easier. Because currently I would need to do something like that:

this.updateDom();
setTimeout(function() {
initializeTimer();
}, 1000);

And pray that the dom changes already happened.

[sdetweil]

@kiina create the timer in getDom() when u create the div, after updateDom() says content is available… u can save the div element in global and then have access to it from other places too…

when the global is not null… then u know it was created