My implementation of debounce axios request left the promise in pending state forever, is there a better way?

Question

I need a simple debounce function with immediate always true.
Without resorting to lodash and with the help of Can someone explain the "debounce" function in J

Answer 1

In essence, you need to share result of your debounce function. In your case, thats a promise:

const debouncedGetData = debounce(getData, 500)
let promiseCount = 0
let resultCount = 0
test()

function test() {
  console.log('start')
  callDebouncedThreeTimes()
  setTimeout(callDebouncedThreeTimes, 200)
  setTimeout(callDebouncedThreeTimes, 900)
}

function callDebouncedThreeTimes () {
   for (let i=0; i<3; i++) {
      debouncedGetData().then(r => {
        console.log('Result count:', ++resultCount)
        console.log('r', r)
      })
   }
}

function debounce(func, wait) {
    let waiting;
    let sharedResult;
    return function() {
        // first call will create the promise|value here
        if (!waiting) {
          setTimeout(clearWait, wait)
          waiting = true
          sharedResult = func.apply(this, arguments);
        }
        // else new calls within waitTime will be discarded but shared the result from first call

        function clearWait() {
          waiting = null
          sharedResult = null
        }

        return sharedResult
    };
}

function getData () {
  console.log('Promise count:', ++promiseCount)
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
       resolve(666)
    }, 1000)
  })
}