Timer

When using a resident plugin (a plugin that remains running in background), you can set timers to fire after a given timeout.

A plugin that doesn't have a listener or some other way of staying in memory will not be able to run timers.

let timer = Beat.timer(seconds, callback, repeat)

timer.invalidate() — stop and remove the timer from memory
timer.stop() — stop and reset the timer
timer.start() — restart the timer
timer.running() – check if the timer is currently running

When repeat is set to true the timer will stay in memory. It defaults to false, so you can create one-off timeouts, too:

Beat.timer(1.0, function () {
    Beat.log("One second elapsed.")
})