setInterval will clear itself when element is removed from the DOM #98
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setInterval will clear itself when element is removed from the DOM.
Credit to tangphillip.
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Any word on this issue? Single page apps are becoming more common and timeago needs the ability to remove itself. |
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My use-case is an activity feed with only 5 items. However, over the lifetime of the web application, thousands of items pass through the feed.
It was not ideal to have thousands of setInterval calls fire each minute.