getVisibilityWatcher.ts

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import {onBFCacheRestore} from './bfcache.js';

let firstHiddenTime = -1;

const initHiddenTime = () => {
  // If the document is hidden when this code runs, assume it was always
  // hidden and the page was loaded in the background, with the one exception
  // that visibility state is always 'hidden' during prerendering, so we have
  // to ignore that case until prerendering finishes (see: `prerenderingchange`
  // event logic below).
  return document.visibilityState === 'hidden' && !document.prerendering
    ? 0
    : Infinity;
};

const onVisibilityUpdate = (event: Event) => {
  // If the document is 'hidden' and no previous hidden timestamp has been
  // set, update it based on the current event data.
  if (document.visibilityState === 'hidden' && firstHiddenTime > -1) {
    // If the event is a 'visibilitychange' event, it means the page was
    // visible prior to this change, so the event timestamp is the first
    // hidden time.
    // However, if the event is not a 'visibilitychange' event, then it must
    // be a 'prerenderingchange' event, and the fact that the document is
    // still 'hidden' from the above check means the tab was activated
    // in a background state and so has always been hidden.
    firstHiddenTime = event.type === 'visibilitychange' ? event.timeStamp : 0;

    // Remove all listeners now that a `firstHiddenTime` value has been set.
    removeChangeListeners();
  }
};

const addChangeListeners = () => {
  addEventListener('visibilitychange', onVisibilityUpdate, true);
  // IMPORTANT: when a page is prerendering, its `visibilityState` is
  // 'hidden', so in order to account for cases where this module checks for
  // visibility during prerendering, an additional check after prerendering
  // completes is also required.
  addEventListener('prerenderingchange', onVisibilityUpdate, true);
};

const removeChangeListeners = () => {
  removeEventListener('visibilitychange', onVisibilityUpdate, true);
  removeEventListener('prerenderingchange', onVisibilityUpdate, true);
};

export const getVisibilityWatcher = () => {
  if (firstHiddenTime < 0) {
    // If the document is hidden when this code runs, assume it was hidden
    // since navigation start. This isn't a perfect heuristic, but it's the
    // best we can do until an API is available to support querying past
    // visibilityState.
    firstHiddenTime = initHiddenTime();
    addChangeListeners();

    // Reset the time on bfcache restores.
    onBFCacheRestore(() => {
      // Schedule a task in order to track the `visibilityState` once it's
      // had an opportunity to change to visible in all browsers.
      // https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1133363
      setTimeout(() => {
        firstHiddenTime = initHiddenTime();
        addChangeListeners();
      }, 0);
    });
  }
  return {
    get firstHiddenTime() {
      return firstHiddenTime;
    },
  };
};