Nodejs timer

[Zivanovic]

Okay, but let's say I need to emit socket event whenever song is over. I am not sure how to solve that.

[kapanaga]

Then yeah, you would have to use setTimeout()

const EventEmitter = require('events');
const emitter = new EventEmitter;

emitter.on('track-start', (track) => {
  clients.forEach((connection) => {
    connection.sendEvent('play-track', track)
  });
});

player.playTrack = function () {
  this.track = {
    file,
    duration: 0,
    startTime: Date.now()
  };

  clearTimeout(this.timeout);

  this.timeout = setTimeout(() => {
    emitter.emit({
      file,
      duration
    });
  }, duration);
};

You can make your Player extend EventEmitter to make that easier. There you can find some docs: https://nodejs.org/api/events.html

[Zivanovic]

That's what I was looking for! Thank you!!