How to delay the .keyup() handler until the user stops typing?

Question

I’ve got a search field. Right now it searches for every keyup. So if someone types “Windows”, it will make a search with AJAX for every keyup: “W”, “Wi”, “Win”, “Wind”, “Wi

Answer 1

From ES6, one can use arrow function syntax as well.

In this example, the code delays keyup event for 400ms after users finish typeing before calling searchFunc make a query request.

const searchbar = document.getElementById('searchBar');
const searchFunc = // any function

// wait ms (milliseconds) after user stops typing to execute func
const delayKeyUp = (() => {
    let timer = null;
    const delay = (func, ms) => {
        timer ? clearTimeout(timer): null
        timer = setTimeout(func, ms)
    }
    return delay
})();

searchbar.addEventListener('keyup', (e) => {
    const query = e.target.value;
    delayKeyUp(() => {searchFunc(query)}, 400);
})