To create a JavaScript setInterval callback function that clears itself, we can call the clearInterval
function with the timer handle as the argument.
For instance, we can write:
const myInterval = setInterval(() => {
console.log('hello')
clearInterval(myInterval);
}, 50);
to call setInterval
with a callback that logs 'hello'
and then calls clearIntrval
with the timer handle returned by setInterval
to clear the timer.
The 2nd argument is set to 50 so that the callback runs every 50 milliseconds.
But the callback will only run once since we called clearInterval
with myInterval
to stop the timer.