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Cancelling Long Operations with AbortSignal

Beyond fetch, AbortSignal is now accepted by addEventListener, setTimeout, setInterval, and many Node APIs.The cleanest pattern: pass a signal to the constructor of a long-lived he…

April 22, 2026 JavaScript chris 1 min read REST API

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Beyond fetch, AbortSignal is now accepted by addEventListener, setTimeout, setInterval, and many Node APIs.The cleanest pattern: pass a signal to the constructor of a long-lived he…

Beyond fetch, AbortSignal is now accepted by addEventListener, setTimeout, setInterval, and many Node APIs.

The cleanest pattern: pass a signal to the constructor of a long-lived helper, and cleanup is a single controller.abort() call. React’s useEffect teardown is the canonical place for this.

Listen for the abort event on the signal to perform any extra cleanup when cancellation happens.

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