Execute the setInterval function without delay the first time

Question

It\'s there a way to configure the setInterval method of javascript to execute the method immediately and then executes with the timer

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but you could easily do something like this:

setInterval(function hello() {
  console.log('world');
  return hello;
}(), 5000);

There's obviously any number of ways of doing this, but that's the most concise way I can think of.

Answer 2

Here's a simple version for novices without all the messing around. It just declares the function, calls it, then starts the interval. That's it.

//Declare your function here
function My_Function(){
  console.log("foo");
}    

//Call the function first
My_Function();

//Set the interval
var interval = window.setInterval( My_Function, 500 );

Answer 3

To solve this problem , I run the function a first time after the page has loaded.

function foo(){ ... }

window.onload = function() {
   foo();
};

window.setInterval(function()
{
    foo(); 
}, 5000);

Answer 4

For someone needs to bring the outer this inside as if it's an arrow function.

(function f() {
    this.emit("...");
    setTimeout(f.bind(this), 1000);
}).bind(this)();

If the above producing garbage bothers you, you can make a closure instead.

(that => {
    (function f() {
        that.emit("...");
        setTimeout(f, 1000);
    })();
})(this);

Or maybe consider using the @autobind decorator depending on your code.

Answer 5

Here's a wrapper to pretty-fy it if you need it:

(function() {
    var originalSetInterval = window.setInterval;

    window.setInterval = function(fn, delay, runImmediately) {
        if(runImmediately) fn();
        return originalSetInterval(fn, delay);
    };
})();

Set the third argument of setInterval to true and it'll run for the first time immediately after calling setInterval:

setInterval(function() { console.log("hello world"); }, 5000, true);

Or omit the third argument and it will retain its original behaviour:

setInterval(function() { console.log("hello world"); }, 5000);

Some browsers support additional arguments for setInterval which this wrapper doesn't take into account; I think these are rarely used, but keep that in mind if you do need them.

Answer 6

actually the quickest is to do

interval = setInterval(myFunction(),45000)

this will call myfunction, and then will do it agaian every 45 seconds which is different than doing

interval = setInterval(myfunction, 45000)

which won't call it, but schedule it only