So, I’m deep into building this JavaScript weather widget, and honestly, it should be a straightforward project. But here’s the thing—I’ve hit this super annoying snag: the widget seems to be executing its update function twice. I’ve gone over my code like ten times, checking for anything that might trigger a double call, but I’m just not seeing it. It feels like I’m losing my mind here.
I’ve ensured that I only have one invocation of the function that fetches the weather data. But whenever I load or refresh the widget, it updates the display twice in quick succession. It’s not just a visual glitch either; I can see it makes two API calls as well, which is just not ideal. Too many calls to the API will surely get me in trouble—the last thing I need is to hit any rate limits!
I thought maybe it was an event listener issue. You know, sometimes they can get attached multiple times without you realizing it, right? But I’ve checked that too. I use `removeEventListener` to clear any previous listeners, so that shouldn’t be the problem.
Another thought was that I might have accidentally included the script multiple times in my HTML, causing it to initialize twice. But I made sure to check the `