Changing the interval of SetInterval while it's running

Question

I have written a javascript function that uses setInterval to manipulate a string every tenth of a second for a certain number of iterations.

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Answer 1

Here is yet another way to create a decelerating/accelerating interval timer. The interval gets multiplied by a factor until a total time is exceeded.

function setChangingInterval(callback, startInterval, factor, totalTime) {
    let remainingTime = totalTime;
    let interval = startInterval;

    const internalTimer = () => {
        remainingTime -= interval ;
        interval *= factor;
        if (remainingTime >= 0) {
            setTimeout(internalTimer, interval);
            callback();
        }
    };
    internalTimer();
}