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What is Debouncing?

Lena Jeremiah on February 13, 2022

Performance is one of the many things that are prioritized when building websites and software generally. As software engineers, it's imperative th...
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rxliuli • Edited

Asynchrony is one of the most complex problems in front-end programming, and there is even a super-powerful library like rxjs that deals specifically with async-related issues.
I also maintains its own lightweight lib for handling asynchronous related tasks, refer to @liuli-util/async

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Lena Jeremiah

I agree with you. RxJS is a pretty cool library and I'd advice anyone who does frontend development to check it out

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rxliuli

rxjs is really cool, but I don't think all front-ends have to master rxjs, it's so complicated that most projects don't need to use it, that's why we maintain some similar functions separately and form a lib reason.

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Guillermo Prandi

Using asynchronous have its own difficulty and creates new problems. One in particular to be aware of is what happens if the objects referenced by the delayed function are no longer valid when it resolves.

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Mbah Favour

Super easy to understand the concept.....and it's use...Good one

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Lena Jeremiah

I'm happy you understood it... Thanks for reading

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Jason C. McDonald

TIL! Thanks for this.

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Lena Jeremiah

You're welcome Jason

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Chuba Samuel

I've always thought of debouncing to avoid unnecessary function calls. Your article is quite clear and succinct.

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Lena Jeremiah

Thanks for reading

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Prafful Lachhwani

Good read! Thank you for the article

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Lena Jeremiah

Thank you very much Prafful

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Nick Hodges

Great article, thanks.

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Lena Jeremiah

Thanks for reading Nick

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Andrew Baisden

Nicely explained.

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DevFranPR

Nice post!

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Lena Jeremiah

Thanks for reading

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Philip

Nice implementation, I had used a different debounce func before