Debounce React State Updates using Hooks

Debounces another state values changes by the given delay.

This can be used to debounce the execution of another effect tied to search inputs or other fast changing values.

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'

export default function useDebouncedValue(value, delay) {
  const [debouncedValue, setDebouncedValue] = useState(value)

  useEffect(() => {
    const timeout = setTimeout(() => {
      setDebouncedValue(value)
    }, delay)

    return () => {
      clearTimeout(timeout)
    }
  }, [value])

  return debouncedValue
}

Usage

Pass another state value and a delay to useDebouncedValue.

function MyComponent() {
  // Controls an input for example
  const [searchText, setSearchText] = useState('')

  // Only changes if 500ms passed after the last change of searchText
  const debouncedSearchText = useDebouncedValue(searchText, 500)

  useEffect(() => {
    // Do some api calls
  }, [debouncedSearchText])

  // ...
}