I'm trying to implement a debounce function that works with a promise in javascript. That way, each caller can consume the result of the "debounced" function using a Promise. Here is the best I have been able to come up with so far:
function debounce(inner, ms = 0) {
let timer = null;
let promise = null;
const events = new EventEmitter(); // do I really need this?
return function (...args) {
if (timer == null) {
promise = new Promise(resolve => {
events.once('done', resolve);
});
} else {
clearTimeout(timer);
}
timer = setTimeout(() => {
events.emit('done', inner(...args));
timer = null;
}, ms);
return promise;
};
}
Ideally, I would like to implement this utility function without introducing a dependency on EventEmitter (or implementing my own basic version of EventEmitter), but I can't think of a way to do it. Any thoughts?
I found a better way to implement this with promises:
function debounce(inner, ms = 0) {
let timer = null;
let resolves = [];
return function (...args) {
// Run the function after a certain amount of time
clearTimeout(timer);
timer = setTimeout(() => {
// Get the result of the inner function, then apply it to the resolve function of
// each promise that has been created since the last time the inner function was run
let result = inner(...args);
resolves.forEach(r => r(result));
resolves = [];
}, ms);
return new Promise(r => resolves.push(r));
};
}
I still welcome suggestions, but the new implementation answers my original question about how to implement this function without a dependency on EventEmitter (or something like it).