Throttling & debouncing
Mouse moves, scrolls and window resizes fire dozens of times per second. Reacting to every one of them is a fast way to make a chart feel sluggish.
Throttling and debouncing let you handle these events at a sane rate instead. Two small helpers that go a long way.
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4 minutes readThe previous lesson cached expensive computations. This one caches something else: the firing of events.
Reach for this whenever a handler runs on mousemove, scroll, or resize.
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