Don’t Sleep on AbortController

Artem Zakharchenko:

A great “aha” moment for me was when I realized you can use a single signal to remove multiple event listeners!

useEffect(() => {
  const controller = new AbortController()

  window.addEventListener('resize', handleResize, {
    signal: controller.signal,
  })
  window.addEventListener('hashchange', handleHashChange, {
    signal: controller.signal,
  })
  window.addEventListener('storage', handleStorageChange, {
    signal: controller.signal,
  })

  return () => {
    // Calling `.abort()` removes ALL event listeners
    // associated with `controller.signal`. Gone!
    controller.abort()
  }
}, [])Code language: JavaScript (javascript)