retryAsync

A simple TypeScript utility function to retry asynchronous operations with customizable retry count and delay.

✨ Features

• Retries any async function up to a specified number of times
• Customizable delay between retries
• Fully type-safe with support for any return type
• Useful for handling flaky API calls, network requests, or transient errors

📦 Installation

npm install retry-async-function

🛠️ Usage

type UserData = {
  name: string;
  age: number;
};

const fetchData: () => Promise<UserData> = async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data')
  return await response.json()
}

const result: UserData = await retryAsync(fetchData, 5, 1000)

🧠 API

retryAsync<T>(
  fn: () => Promise<T>,
  maxRetries?: number,   // default = 3
  delayMs?: number        // default = 500ms
): Promise<T>

📄 License

MIT © Patrick Nassar

Have fun :)