Lodash debounce not working all of a sudden? - react-native

Question

I'm using a component I wrote for one app, in a newer app. The code is like 99% identical between the first app, which is working, and the second app. Everything is fine except that debounce is not activating in the new app. What am I doing wrong?
// #flow
import type { Location } from "../redux/reducers/locationReducer";
import * as React from "react";
import { Text, TextInput, View, TouchableOpacity } from "react-native";
import { Input } from "react-native-elements";
import { GoogleMapsApiKey } from "../../.secrets";
import _, { debounce } from "lodash";
import { connect } from "react-redux";
import { setCurrentRegion } from "../redux/actions/locationActions";
export class AutoFillMapSearch extends React.Component<Props, State> {
textInput: ?TextInput;
state: State = {
address: "",
addressPredictions: [],
showPredictions: false
};
async handleAddressChange() {
console.log("handleAddressChange");
const url = `https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?key=${GoogleMapsApiKey}&input=${this.state.address}`;
try {
const result = await fetch(url);
const json = await result.json();
if (json.error_message) throw Error(json.error_message);
this.setState({
addressPredictions: json.predictions,
showPredictions: true
});
// debugger;
} catch (err) {
console.warn(err);
}
}
onChangeText = async (address: string) => {
await this.setState({ address });
console.log("onChangeText");
debounce(this.handleAddressChange.bind(this), 800); // console.log(debounce) confirms that the function is importing correctly.
};
render() {
const predictions = this.state.addressPredictions.map(prediction => (
<TouchableOpacity
style={styles.prediction}
key={prediction.id}
onPress={() => {
this.props.beforeOnPress();
this.onPredictionSelect(prediction);
}}
>
<Text style={text.prediction}>{prediction.description}</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>
));
return (
<View>
<TextInput
ref={ref => (this.textInput = ref)}
onChangeText={this.onChangeText}
value={this.state.address}
style={[styles.input, this.props.style]}
placeholder={"Search"}
autoCorrect={false}
clearButtonMode={"while-editing"}
onBlur={() => {
this.setState({ showPredictions: false });
}}
/>
{this.state.showPredictions && (
<View style={styles.predictionsContainer}>{predictions}</View>
)}
</View>
);
}
}
export default connect(
null,
{ setCurrentRegion }
)(AutoFillMapSearch);

Answer 1

I noticed that the difference in the code was that the older app called handleAddressChange as a second argument to setState. Flow was complaining about this in the new app so I thought async/awaiting setState would work the same way.
So changing it to this works fine (with no flow complaints for some reason. maybe because I've since installed flow-typed lodash. God I love flow-typed!):
onChangeText = async (address: string) => {
this.setState(
{ address },
_.debounce(this.handleAddressChange.bind(this), 800)
);
};