I am trying to build following functionality:

User can type number on keyboard while the tab is active, and this can be a number with several digits. How can I get the whole number after the delay time between the keyup event is finished?

I have written following code, but I am getting the buffer on every keyup, and I only need to get the final result. What am I doing wrong?

The code so far:

const delay = 1000
const keystrokeDelay = delay;

let state = {
  buffer: [],
  lastKeyTime: Date.now()
};

document.addEventListener('keyup', event => {
  const key = event.key;
  const currentTime = Date.now();
  let buffer = [];

  if (currentTime - state.lastKeyTime > keystrokeDelay) {
    buffer = [key];
  } else {
    buffer = [...state.buffer, key];
  }

  state = {buffer: buffer, lastKeyTime: currentTime};
});

>Solution :

I have written following code, but I am getting the buffer on every
keyup, and I only need to get the final result. What am I doing wrong?

You could make use of setTimeout and clearTimeout.

const delay = 1000
const keystrokeDelay = delay;
let keyTimeout = null;

let state = {
  buffer: [],
  lastKeyTime: Date.now()
};

document.addEventListener('keyup', event => {
  window.clearTimeout(keyTimeout);

  const key = event.key;
  const currentTime = Date.now();
  let buffer = [];

  if (currentTime - state.lastKeyTime > keystrokeDelay) {
    buffer = [key];
  } else {
    buffer = [...state.buffer, key];
  }

  state = {buffer: buffer, lastKeyTime: currentTime};
  keyTimeout = window.setTimeout((wholeString) => console.log(wholeString), delay, buffer.join(''))
});