WATCHDOG

A Timer used to Detect and Recover from Malfunctions.

Picture Credit: Using Watchdog Timer

USAGE

$ npm install watchdog
...

import { Watchdog } from 'watchdog'

const TIMEOUT = 1 * 1000  // 1 second
const dog = new watchdog(TIMEOUT)

const food = { data: 'delicious' }

dog.on('reset', () => console.log('reset-ed'))
dog.on('feed',  () => console.log('feed-ed'))

dog.feed(food)
// Output: feed-ed

setTimeout(function() {
  dog.sleep()
  console.log('dog sleep-ed. Demo over.')
}, TIMEOUT + 1)
// Output: reset-ed.
// Output: dog sleep-ed. Demo over.

DOCUMENT

See auto generated docs

SEE ALSO

• Wikipedia: Watchdog timer
• Yet Another watchdog timer for node.js (and browserify)

THANKS

Thanks to Damon Oehlman (https://github.com/DamonOehlman) who owned the watchdog name of NPM module. He is so kind and nice that passed this name over to me after my request.

AUTHOR

Huan LI <zixia@zixia.net> (http://linkedin.com/in/zixia)

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

• Code & Docs © 2017 Huan LI <zixia@zixia.net>
• Code released under the Apache-2.0 License
• Docs released under Creative Commons