How to measure the time javascript function with performance.now()

#performance #javascript #beginners

Sometimes, we want to know how is the performance or time spend in some function or process, it can be solved using performance.now().

performance.now() help us to get time in milliseconds, and we can measure the time between some function complete his process.

Using performance.now

We can take the current performance.now() and compare with the same when our function finishes the process, like my example.

function getUsers() {
  console.log("Start...")
  let from = performance.now();
  setTimeout(() => {
    console.log("Getting users..")
    let to = performance.now()
    let total = from - to;
    console.log(`Total miliseconds ${total}`); 
  },3000)
}
// Total miliseconds -3003