A little while back I created a small jQuery library for a project I was working on. This was mainly an exercise for me to refresh my knowledge of jQuery plugins, but it was also a feature I needed. The feature is a “delayed change” event trigger for a field (useful when implementing background auto-save).

When the value of an observed field changes, a “delayed change” event is triggered after your specified delay duration.

I presented the library to my team at one of our every-other-weekly¹ tech lunches where it sparked some great conversation, feedback and suggestions. An hour later I had a pull request that included the improvements we’d discussed. So awesome.

Anyway, the jQuery Delayed Change Event library is available on GitHub – enjoy!

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