How to prevent double click in Angular?

Since some people asked for the throttleTime directive, I’ll add it below. I chose to go this route because the debounceTime waits for the last click before firing the actual click event. throttleTime will not allow the clicker to click the button again until that time is reached and instead fires the click event immediately.

Directive

import { Directive, EventEmitter, HostListener, Input, OnDestroy, OnInit, Output } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject, Subscription } from 'rxjs';
import { throttleTime } from 'rxjs/operators';

@Directive({
  selector: '[appPreventDoubleClick]'
})
export class PreventDoubleClickDirective implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
  @Input()
  throttleTime = 500;

  @Output()
  throttledClick = new EventEmitter();

  private clicks = new Subject();
  private subscription: Subscription;

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.subscription = this.clicks.pipe(
      throttleTime(this.throttleTime)
    ).subscribe(e => this.emitThrottledClick(e));
  }

  emitThrottledClick(e) {
    this.throttledClick.emit(e);
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    this.subscription.unsubscribe();
  }

  @HostListener('click', ['$event'])
  clickEvent(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    event.stopPropagation();
    this.clicks.next(event);
  }
}

Example Usage

throttleTime is optional since there is a default of 500 in the directive

<button appPreventDoubleClick (throttledClick)="log()" [throttleTime]="700">Throttled Click</button>

If you have a bot that’s clicking on your element every 1ms, then you’ll notice that the event only ever fires once until the throttleTime is up.