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How to **correctly** debounce an event that will be triggered many times with identical arguments.
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debounce.js
const debounce = function(fn, duration) {
let timeout = null
return (...args) => {
clearTimeout(timeout)
timeout = setTimeout(() => fn(...args), duration)
}
}
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Example:

const fn = (text) => console.log(text)
const dfn = debounce(fn, 200)

dfn('hello')
dfn('hello') // hello

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