Refresh interval but only when idle

[hazae41]

I would like a page that displays some feed, and refresh it automatically. However, it should not refresh while the user is active on the page, because it would be disturbing.

Is there a way to have a refresh interval, but only if the user is NOT doing anything e.g. scrolling the page, dragging mouse, typing something, etc.?

I could use the new Idle Detection API or listen for mouse and scroll events, but isn't there already a such feature in SWR?

[shuding]

In short: SWR doesn't have the ability now, but this is actually a good suggestion! There're two related options:

• refreshWhenHidden
• refreshWhenOffline

So it's great to have refreshWhenIdle too, and even more you should be able to provide an idle event listener (to customize).

Going to convert this into an issue 👍

Created #1562.