React use debounce with setState

Question

Background

Assume we all know about the debounce function from lodash.

If a user quickly input 1,12,123,1234, it allows us to proceed an alert only once, with 1234, after a certain delay time.

This is quite used to reduce request amount, for optimization.

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Description

For a normal input field, we can use that kind of debounce and it works.

Problem: Once we add a setState inside the same callback with debounce, the debounce won't work as normal.

Does anyone know the reason?

import React, { useState } from "react";
import "./styles.css";
import { debounce } from "lodash";

export default function App() {
  const [input, setInput] = useState("");

  const debouceRequest = debounce(value => {
    alert(`request: ${value}`);
  }, 1000);
  const onChange = e => {
    setInput(e.target.value); // Remove this line will lead to normal debounce
    debouceRequest(e.target.value);
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <input onChange={onChange} />
    </div>
  );
}

Answer 1

Try this (using useCallback):

import React, { useState, useCallback } from "react";
import "./styles.css";
import { debounce } from "lodash";

const request = debounce(value => {
  alert(`request: ${value}`);
}, 1000);

export default function App() {
  const [input, setInput] = useState("");

  const debouceRequest = useCallback(value => request(value), []);

  const onChange = e => {
    debouceRequest(e.target.value);
    setInput(e.target.value); // Remove this line will lead to normal denounce
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <input onChange={onChange} />
    </div>
  );
}