Asynchronously delay JS until a condition is met

Question

I have a class, ChatRoom, that can only render after it receives a long-running HTTP request (it could take 1 second or 30 seconds). So I need to delay rendering un

Answer 1

You could also achieve this using lodash's debouncer with recursion.

import _debounce from 'lodash/debounce';

const wait = (() => {
    if ( chatroom.json ) {
        chatroom.render();
    } else {
      _debounce(wait, 500)();
    }
})();