Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications

Limiting user inputs with throttle/debounce

As is, we submit a request to the server with every keystroke. This is not a desirable behavior, because it can lead to a bad user experience, drain battery life, result in wasted network requests, and create performance issues both on the client and server side. Users make typos; they can change their mind about what they are inputting and rarely ever, the first few characters of information input result in useful results.

We can still listen to every keystroke, but we don't have to react to every keystroke. By leveraging throttle/debounce, we can limit the number of events generated to a predetermined interval and still maintain the type-as-you-search functionality.

Note that throttle and debounce ...