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

This worked for me where I delay the search logic operation and make a check if the value is same as entered in text field. If value is same then I go ahead and perform the operation for the data related to search value.

$('#searchText').on('keyup',function () {
    var searchValue = $(this).val();
    setTimeout(function(){
        if(searchValue == $('#searchText').val() && searchValue != null && searchValue != "") {
           // logic to fetch data based on searchValue
        }
        else if(searchValue == ''){
           // logic to load all the data
        }
    },300);
});