How to listen to a Port's disconnect event?
I created an entry file in
background/ports/foo.ts, and I'd like to listen to onConnect/onDisconnect events (I want to know when the user has closed a certain tab). Is there a standard way to do this with plasmo?4 Replies
To give more context, I'm using the port to send messages from content scripts to my background worker, and I read that listening to onDisconnect would be a good way to keep to know if there's any content script running without requireing the "tabs" permission.
I was hoping I could just
export const onDisconnect = (port) => {} or something like that@MagneticSpark has reached level 1. GG!
It would've been a great way, but the issue is that Chrome will automatically kill the Service Worker when its JS stops executing for some time
RIght now I can't think of a sustainable way to detect when a tab is closed
I ran into a similar issue in my YouTube Time Manager, such that when the ext updates I needed to know when the context becomes invalid
My initial idea was to set an
onDisconnected listener, but Chrome kept killing the Service Worker so it repeatedly told the user "Reload this tab to keep the watch tracking"
My solution was to simply inform the user when the storage retrieval/saving failedChrome Web Store
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