The Best JavaScript Debounce Function in the Universe

5 December 2023 | How Does it Work?, Programming, Uncategorized | 0 comments

If you code in JavaScript, you should know all about debouncing functions.

When an event listener such as a window ‘resize’ fires, sometimes it will fire 72,000 times per second. That means your callback function is also firing 72,000 times in a row, bogging down the browser.

This isn’t as much of a problem as it used to be, but debouncing is still needed and should still be used.

So what’s the best way to debounce/throttle in JavaScript?

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