Question

I am creating an application in Javascript. The app should run a function one hour after a user has done a specifc action. What can I use to create these scheduled tasks to run the function?

Explanation of the use case: A user clicks her status to “active”, after one hour the status should automatically be changed to “inactive”.

Answer 1

You may use setTimeout() for that:

var timer = setTimeout(function() {
    // Task
}, 60 * 60 * 1000);

And clearTimeout() to stop timeout in extra cases:

clearTimeout(timer);