Stuck with Pomodoro Clock Project

1

Please send help!
I got the UI down but can’t seem to figure out how to get the algorithm for the actual timer started.
Here’s what I have so far:

I appreciate any feedback in advanced.

thank you!

2

Hi, you can use setTimeout or setInterval to decrease the “remaining time” while “remaining time” is larger than zero.

3

First point, nice job on the UI.

Second, doesn’t answer your question but something you may have overlooked, your session/break timer +/- feature currently allows you to select a negative number for either, you’ll want to account for that and prevent a user from being able to select a negative (and maybe even a 0) time.

The algorithm, don’t overthink it. You can do something simple like

some pseudo code.

foo(minute, second) {
  // clock here will be your dom element for the actual timer.
  clock.textContent = `${minute}:${second}`;
  
  if minute and second === 0: return;
  if second === 0 and minute !==0 then subtract 1 from minute, set second = 60
  s -= 1

 var something = setTimeout(foo(minute, second));
}

when a button is clicked, add eventListener('click', () => foo(5, 30))

then we can call this function we can pass in the time( a literal or a variable containing the values from your session/break timer).

This is just one way, an idea to get you started.

4

Thank you so much! I got it to work now. It is definitely simpler than other examples I’ve found online.
I just need to fix a few bugs and clean up the code.

Here it is: