How do you send an ajax request every time that a form input field changes?

Question

For example, there is an input field. Every time a user types a key into that field, it sends an AJAX request with whatever text is currently in that input, and does something

Answer 1

sending a request on each change is just bad, delay the ajax on the last change

var changeTimer = false;

$("your inputs").on("your change event",function(){
        if(changeTimer !== false) clearTimeout(changeTimer);
        changeTimer = setTimeout(function(){
            /* your ajax here */
            changeTimer = false;
        },300);
});