free text search using api

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I have an search api and textfield which invoke fetch request on each keystroke. ideas on simple solution how to trigger only when there is a small pause of typing or just skip the ones not relevant?

[carmine lake]

you could use a debounce function here

sending a code sample in a minute, ive done this b4

https://github.com/narutosstudent/vinland-saga/blob/33d3e6f2e3a0e8871173f649217af620e47a29e2/pages/sign-up/index.tsx#L95

hope it helps! feel ya there, dont wanna make too many requests lmao

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thank you.. checking soon

[carmine lake]

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can you explain how debounce function works? i couldn't find official documentation of this function but it seems it's just postpone invocation by fix time interval

[carmine lake]

sure!!

https://github.com/hayes/just-debounce/blob/master/index.js implementation of it can be found here

it seems like the run function it what actually gets called

and where we're calling fn.apply with self

self is this, i think we're changing it because of the apply function