Extend the Timeout after Each Click on React

by Abdul Rawoof A R Updated: Jan 24, 2023

In this kit, we're going to see how to extend the timeout after each click on React with simple steps. Put the timeout ID into a ref, and then you can call clearTimeout on it at the very beginning of the click handler. To clear or cancel a timer, you call the clearTimeout(); method, passing in the timer object that you created into clearTimeout(). For example, the code below shows how to properly clear a timer inside of a functional React component. You can customize your interval time in code, here we have given 1 second. To implement this task, use the ready-made code snippet below by just copying the code and paste it in your IDE with React library. Explore more top trending libraries and code snippets on kandi.

Fig : Preview of the output that you will get on running this code from your IDE.

Code

In this solution we're using React library.

Extend the timeout after each click on react

JavaScriptLines of Code : 26License : CC BY-SA 4.0

const Test = () => {
    const [message, setMessage] = React.useState("-");
    const timeoutIdRef = React.useRef();
    const handleClick = () => {
        setMessage("Clicked");
        clearTimeout(timeoutIdRef.current);
        timeoutIdRef.current = setTimeout(() => {
            setMessage("-");
        }, 1000);
    };
    // cleanup, if desired
    // React.useEffect(() => clearTimeout(timeoutIdRef.current), []);
    return (
        <article>
            <header>
                {message}
            </header>
            <button onClick={handleClick}>button</button>
        </article>
    );
}

ReactDOM.render(<Test />, document.querySelector('.react'));
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<div class='react'></div>

Instructions

Follow the steps carefully to get the output easily.

Install the Node.js and React on your IDE(preferable Visual Studio Code).
Create React Application using npx create-react-app foldername.
cd foldername.
Open the folder in IDE.
Copy the code using "copy" button above and paste it in index.js file(remove the earlier code from index.js) then paste the script tag in index.html file.
Import React and ReactDOM in index.js file.
Open the terminal from IDE.
npm start to run the file.

I hope you found this useful. I have added the link to dependent libraries, version information in the following sections.

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Environment Tested

I tested this solution in the following versions. Be mindful of changes when working with other versions.

The solution is created in Visual Studio Code 1.73.1.
The solution is tested on node v18.12.1 and npm v8.19.2.
React version-18.2.0.

Using this solution, we are able to extend the timeout after each click on React with simple steps. This process also facilities an easy way to use, hassle-free method to create a hands-on working version of code which would help us to extend the timeout after each click on React.