What does _.debounce do?

Question

A project I\'ve been working on uses _.debounce().

The Underscore JS documentation for debounce reads as follows:

debounce <

Answer 1

Description from the source code of underscore.js:

Returns a function, that, as long as it continues to be invoked, will not be triggered. The function will be called after it stops being called for N milliseconds. If 'immediate' is passed, trigger the function on the leading edge, instead of the trailing.

Code it self:

_.debounce = function(func, wait, immediate) {
  var timeout, result;
  return function() {
    var context = this, args = arguments;
    var later = function() {
      timeout = null;
      if (!immediate) result = func.apply(context, args);
    };
    var callNow = immediate && !timeout;
    clearTimeout(timeout);
    timeout = setTimeout(later, wait);
    if (callNow) result = func.apply(context, args);
    return result;
  };
};