AbortController: signal property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2019.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The signal read-only property of the AbortController interface returns an AbortSignal object instance, which can be used to communicate with/abort an asynchronous operation as desired.
Value
An AbortSignal object instance.
Examples
See the AbortSignal page for usage examples.
You can find a full working example on GitHub; you can also see it running live.
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