Angular 2: Debounce (ngModelChange)?

Is there a way to debounce the template directive (ngModelChange)?

Or, alternatively, what is the least-painful way to do it a different way?

The closest answer I see is this: How to watch for form changes in Angular 2?

So, for example, I have a text input, I want to get onChange updates, but I want to debounce it down from every keystroke:

<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter a value" name="foo" [(ngModel)]="input.event.value" (ngModelChange)="onFieldChange($event, input)">

Debounce onFieldChange()

EDIT

In new version of Angular you can use updateOn in ngModelOption to set 'blur' for example. Link to angular.io documentation.

Code example :

<input [(ngModel)]="value"
  [ngModelOptions]="{ updateOn: 'blur' }"
  (ngModelChange)="updateOnlyOnBlur($event)"> 

LEGACY

Here's the less painful way of debouncing keystrokes if you don't want to use the formcontrol approach.

search.component.html

<input type="text" placeholder="Enter a value" name="foo" [(ngModel)]="txtQuery" (ngModelChange)="onFieldChange($event)">

search.component.ts

    export class SearchComponent {
    
         txtQuery: string; // bind this to input with ngModel
         txtQueryChanged: Subject<string> = new Subject<string>();
    
         constructor() {
          this.txtQueryChanged
            .debounceTime(1000) // wait 1 sec after the last event before emitting last event
            .distinctUntilChanged() // only emit if value is different from previous value
            .subscribe(model => {
              this.txtQuery = model;
    
              // Call your function which calls API or do anything you would like do after a lag of 1 sec
              this.getDataFromAPI(this.txtQuery);
             });
        }
    
    onFieldChange(query:string){
      this.txtQueryChanged.next(query);
    }
}