reinvent the wheel

wheel2.js

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+// WHEEL2 HOW 2 USE
+// =====================
+// written by carly smallbird. GPL-3 license
+// this should play fine with jquery. i'm not a snob
+//
+// data-wheel-timer = put this on the body with a number in miliseconds in it if you
+//     want to change the default timer
+// data-wheel-get = name of callback function to periodically get data from
+// data-wheel-update = name of callback function to periodically put data to
+// data-wheel-transformer = function to call after getting data to transform it.
+//     requires above data-wheel-get
+
+((wheel2) => {
+  wheel2.updateTime =
+    5000 ||
+    document.getElementsByTagName("body").getAttribute("data-wheel-timer") ?
+      parseInt(document.getElementsByTagName("body").getAttribute("data-wheel-timer")) :
+      null;
+
+  wheel2.init = () => {
+    const gettables = document.querySelectorAll("[data-wheel-get]");
+    const updateables = document.querySelectorAll("[data-wheel-update]");
+    gettables.map((elt) => {
+      const fxn = elt.getAttribute("data-wheel-get");
+      const transformer = elt.getAttribute("data-wheel-transformer");
+      setInterval(() => {
+        const getData = new Promise(() => {
+          window[fxn]();
+        });
+        if (transformer) {
+          getData.then(window[transformer]());
+        }
+      }, wheel2.updateTime);
+    });
+    updateables.map((elt) => {
+      const fxn = elt.getAttribute("data-wheel-update");
+      setInterval(() => {
+        window[fxn]();
+      }, wheel2.updateTime);
+    })
+  }
+});
+
+window.addEventListener('load', wheel2.init);