30-seconds-of-code/snippets/throttle.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
throttle	function,advanced	2018-01-28T15:23:01+02:00	2020-09-15T16:28:04+03:00

Creates a throttled function that only invokes the provided function at most once per every wait milliseconds

• Use setTimeout() and clearTimeout() to throttle the given method, fn.
• Use Function.prototype.apply() to apply the this context to the function and provide the necessary arguments.
• Use Date.now() to keep track of the last time the throttled function was invoked.
• Use a variable, inThrottle, to prevent a race condition between the first execution of fn and the next loop.
• Omit the second argument, wait, to set the timeout at a default of 0 ms.

const throttle = (fn, wait) => {
  let inThrottle, lastFn, lastTime;
  return function() {
    const context = this,
      args = arguments;
    if (!inThrottle) {
      fn.apply(context, args);
      lastTime = Date.now();
      inThrottle = true;
    } else {
      clearTimeout(lastFn);
      lastFn = setTimeout(function() {
        if (Date.now() - lastTime >= wait) {
          fn.apply(context, args);
          lastTime = Date.now();
        }
      }, Math.max(wait - (Date.now() - lastTime), 0));
    }
  };
};

window.addEventListener(
  'resize',
  throttle(function(evt) {
    console.log(window.innerWidth);
    console.log(window.innerHeight);
  }, 250)
); // Will log the window dimensions at most every 250ms