sindresorhus/p-retry

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1035 stars · 83 forks observed · 2026-09-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small JavaScript library for retrying promise-returning or async functions with exponential backoff and customizable retry strategies. It supports aborting retries on non-retryable errors and provides failure context callbacks.

Use cases

• retry failed http fetch requests
• add exponential backoff to async function calls
• retry flaky network operations in node
• stop retrying on 404 errors
• retry promise with custom retry strategy

When to choose

• you need robust retry logic with exponential backoff for async operations
• you want fine-grained control over which errors are retried or aborted
• you need per-failure callbacks with retry state information

When to avoid

• you need retry logic for non-promise synchronous code
• you need circuit breaker or rate limiting beyond simple retries
• your runtime lacks Promise support

Facets

library · maturity active

concurrency error-handling developer-tools backend web-development browser promise retry exponential-backoff async npm nodejs javascript

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