Today, I'd like to talk about one of the standard JavaScript APIs you are likely sleeping on. It's called AbortController.

What is AbortController?

AbortController is a global class in JavaScript that you can use to abort, well, anything!

Here's how you use it:

const controller = new AbortController();
 
controller.signal;
controller.abort();

Once you create a controller instance, you get two things:

• The signal property, which is an instance of AbortSignal. This is a pluggable part you can provide to any API to react to an abort event, and implement it accordingly. For example, providing it to a fetch() request will abort the request;
• The .abort() method that, when called, triggers the abort event on the signal. It also updates the signal to be marked as aborted.