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feat: NetworkStatus #117

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Hi all 👋
I thought it might be useful to have this useNetworkStatus utility to get the current status of the network connection at any time. It could be used to inform users that they have a bad connection, or that they have temporarily lost access to the internet altogether. I also added the updatedAt property, which can be used, for example, to show how much time users were offline before coming back online (please, see the attached demo).

It's heavily inspired by useNetworkState from React-Hookz/web.

This hasn't been discussed in a separate feature request yet, so feel free to reject this PR if you think this utility doesn't belong in the library.

Demo in Chrome:

use-network-status-chrome-demo.mov

Demo in Safari/Firefox:

use-network-stastus-firefox-safari-demo.mov

The returned status always includes online and updatedAt.
Other properties are returned based on the NetworkInformation interface and depend on your browser's compatibility.

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Nice one!

Left some small nitpicks.

More broadly, I don't want to speak for the maintainers, but looking at the current naming/API patterns of the codebase my assumption is the use prefix is being reserved for functions that accept a callback to observe changes.

I'd probably either rework so it can be used like:

useNetworkStatus((data) => { 
  // do something with new data 
});

or keep it essentially the same as the current implementation, but change it to a NetworkStatus class (classes also seem to be the pattern for encapsulating reactive state in this repo).

const networkStatus = new NetworkStatus();

Second makes most sense to me, but you could potentially even have both if you really wanted. Hopefully maintainers can give guidance.

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Thanks for taking the time to contribute this! Left some notes!

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Looking great! Just passing observations until maintainers can provide a proper review :)

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Part of me wonders if we should just include a previous property and just provide that as an API out of the box. I'm also wondering if we should expose an isConnectionSupported property as well so users can better conditionally handle situations where none of the other properties will be defined.

What do you all think?

Great job with the implementation @michal-weglarz!

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TGlide commented Jul 18, 2024

Why the previous property? Do you think it'd be common enough that its warranted over just using the Previous utility?

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huntabyte commented Jul 19, 2024

Why the previous property? Do you think it'd be common enough that its warranted over just using the Previous utility?

After thinking about it more, you're right. I think it might just create bloat that isn't always necessary, so it's best to leverage other utilities if necessary, as in the example. Disregard that one!

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Awesome stuff! Some minor changes needed

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#online: boolean = $state(false);
#updatedAt: Date = $state(new Date());
#downlink?: NetworkInformation["downlink"] = $state();
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Can't these be deriveds that depend on connection?

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Actually, can't we just use gets that use connection? Why do we need these individual fields?

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Can we get the updated state without these? If connection or its properties, or online/offline status changes (e.g., random internet disconnection), how will the client be notified?

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connection can be a state, since all of the other ones are just set from it. then updateStatus updates connection, and that's it

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I pushed the commit where I simplified the state by depending solely on the derived connection. Seems like it's working exactly the same as before so definitely a great suggestion :)

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```ts
const networkStatus = new NetworkStatus();
const previousNetworkStatus = new Previous(() => ({
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tbh its a bit of a shame we can't spread here 🤔

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@TGlide this is literally what made me consider doing the previous for the user for this one so they wouldn't have to do line by line. The only way I see being able to spread is exposing a $derived property on the class that is basically an object with all those props networkStatus.obj or networkStatus.all but idk how it feels or if it's worth the extra bloat tbh

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Hmm tbh its probably fine. Most of these properties are just being proxied within the connection property, so you could just use that


<DemoContainer>
{#if networkStatus.isSupported}
<pre>{JSON.stringify(networkStatusCombined, null, 2)}</pre>
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@huntabyte is it too hard to get syntax highlighting here?

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@TGlide, uhh, we could hack it a bit, but without hacks, we'd need to ship Shiki to the browser.

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No need then!

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michal-weglarz commented Aug 2, 2024

I've noticed an issue with updating the online field when disabling the network manually (e.g., turning off Wi-Fi on my laptop) rather than throttling the network in a browser. This can result in the value being stale and not reflecting the actual current network state. Interestingly, this problem occurs only in Chrome, not in Firefox or Safari.

We could use something like this to check again if the value is up to date:

	#updateStatus = () => {
		if (!this.#navigator) return;
		this.#online = this.#navigator.onLine;
		this.#updatedAt = new Date();

		setTimeout(() => {
			if (!this.#navigator) return;
			const newOnlineStatus = this.#navigator.onLine;
			if (this.#online !== newOnlineStatus) {
				this.#online = newOnlineStatus;
                                this.#updatedAt = new Date();
			}
		}, 100);
	};

From my manual testing, this approach indeed mitigates the problem described above. However, it seems a little brittle. Would you be fine with adding it to the code, or do you see any other potential fix?

EDIT.
What would also work in this case is this:

	constructor() {
		onMount(() => {
			this.#updateStatus();

			useEventListener(window, "online", this.#updateStatus, { passive: true });
			useEventListener(window, "offline", this.#updateStatus, { passive: true });

			if (this.#connection) {
				useEventListener(this.#connection, "change", this.#updateStatus, { passive: true });
			}
		});
	}

This would probably be a better solution, but the handling of updatedAt should be reworked as well. Otherwise, based on the example included in this PR, this would result in a notification like this: '(...). Catch up with what you missed during your 0 seconds offline.' The 0 occurs because the callback updating updatedAt is called too frequently.

React-hookz/web solves this by only storing the timestamp of the moment when the status changes to online/offline. This approach doesn't include timestamps of any other updates.

@michal-weglarz michal-weglarz requested a review from TGlide August 2, 2024 15:12
@huntabyte huntabyte changed the title feat: add useNetworkStatus feat: NetworkStatus Dec 19, 2024
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