react-debounce-component

Debounce any component with React or React Native

<input>
<Debounce ms={500}>
  <List/>
</Debounce>

Tiny: react-debounce-component is very tiny, fast and does not require any other package. Overall it has under 70 lines of code.

Generic: You can debounce almost anything you want: input, search, render, functional components, fetch, api calls, ... It works with react and react-native.

Easy: Think In React not JS. Most other solution work with functions, but this is a <Component>. It makes the code easier to understand and less error-prone. Just put what you want to debounce inside <Debounce>here</Debounce> of your render function and you're good.

Install

npm install react-debounce-component --save

or use yarn.

Examples

Example 1

This is the most simple example. It just debounces the output of <input> for one second.

import React from 'react';
import Debounce from 'react-debounce-component';
 
class App extends React.Component {
  constructor (props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {value: 'Hello'}
  }
  render () {
    return (
      <div>
        <input value={this.state.value} onChange={(event) => {this.setState({value: event.target.value})}}/>
        <Debounce ms={1000}>
          <div>{this.state.value}</div>
        </Debounce>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
export default App;

Example 2

This is a more common scenario, where a list gets fetched from the web.

Expand

import React from 'react';
import Debounce from 'react-debounce-component';
 
class App extends React.Component {
  constructor (props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {value: ''}
  }
  render () {
    return (
      <div>
        <input value={this.state.value} onChange={event => this.setState({value: event.target.value})}/>
        <Debounce ms={1000}>
          <List search={this.state.value}/>
        </Debounce>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
class List extends React.Component {
  constructor (props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {items: []};
  }
  componentDidUpdate (prevProps) {
    if (prevProps !== this.props) { // Prevent rendering after setState()
      fetch('https://api.publicapis.org/entries?title=' + this.props.search)
        .then(res => res.json())
        .then(result => this.setState({items: result.entries || []}));
    }
  }
  render () {
    return (
      <ul>
        {this.state.items.map(item => (
          <li key={item.Link}>
            {item.API} {item.Link}
          </li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    );
  }
}
 
export default App;

Props

ms

Time to wait (delay) in milliseconds until the component inside <Debounce> gets rendered.

required	no
default	250
type	number

initialComponent

What to display on first render (mount). Default is to render the children immediately (e.g. fetch immediately)

Tip: put in null to prevent rendering the children on mount

required	no
default	children
type	component

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Supports React version 16.0.0 and higher. Should even work with 0.13.0 and higher.

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License

react-debounce-component is MIT licensed.