retryIfFails.js

/**
 * Retries the given function until it succeeds given a number of retries and an interval between them. They are set
 * by default to retry 5 times with 1sec in between. There's also a flag to make the cooldown time exponential
 */
async function retry(fn, retriesLeft = 5, interval = 1000, exponential = false) {
  try {
    const val = await fn();
    return val;
  } catch (error) {
    if (retriesLeft) {
      console.log(`Retrying in ${interval/1000} seconds... ${retriesLeft} retries left.`);
      await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, interval));
      return retry(fn, retriesLeft - 1, exponential ? interval * 2 : interval, exponential);
    } else throw new Error('Max retries reached');
  }
}