What is Debounce and how does it work
9 months ago
- #programming
- #debouncing
- #user-input
- Debouncing discards operations that occur too close together and consolidates them into a single invocation.
- Debouncing differs from throttling, which enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop before consolidating.
- A common use case is handling user input, such as typing, to prevent UI lag by processing input only after a pause.
- Debouncing involves leading and trailing edges, with a specified time interval (e.g., 10ms) determining when to execute the consolidated operation.
- Implementations may execute on the leading edge, trailing edge, or both, with timing constraints to prevent rapid successive invocations.