Perform debounce in React.js

Question

How do you perform debounce in React.js?

I want to debounce the handleOnChange.

I tried with debounce(this.handleOnChange, 200) but it doesn\'t

Answer 1

I was searching for a solution to the same problem and came across this thread as well as some others but they had the same problem: if you are trying to do a handleOnChange function and you need the value from an event target, you will get cannot read property value of null or some such error. In my case, I also needed to preserve the context of this inside the debounced function since I'm executing a fluxible action. Here's my solution, it works well for my use case so I'm leaving it here in case anyone comes across this thread:

// at top of file:
var myAction = require('../actions/someAction');

// inside React.createClass({...});

handleOnChange: function (event) {
    var value = event.target.value;
    var doAction = _.curry(this.context.executeAction, 2);

    // only one parameter gets passed into the curried function,
    // so the function passed as the first parameter to _.curry()
    // will not be executed until the second parameter is passed
    // which happens in the next function that is wrapped in _.debounce()
    debouncedOnChange(doAction(myAction), value);
},

debouncedOnChange: _.debounce(function(action, value) {
    action(value);
}, 300)