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useIdle

Tracks whether the user is being inactive.

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For demonstraction purpose, the idle timeout is set to 5s in this demo (default 1min).
Idle: false
Inactive: 0s

Usage

import { useIdle } from '@vueuse/core'

const { idle, lastActive } = useIdle(5 * 60 * 1000) // 5 min

console.log(idle.value) // true or false
import { useIdle } from '@vueuse/core'

const { idle, lastActive } = useIdle(5 * 60 * 1000) // 5 min

console.log(idle.value) // true or false

Component Usage

This function also provides a renderless component version via the @vueuse/components package. Learn more about the usage.

<UseIdle v-slot="{ idle }" :timeout="5 * 60 * 1000">
  Is Idle: {{ idle }}
</UseIdle>
<UseIdle v-slot="{ idle }" :timeout="5 * 60 * 1000">
  Is Idle: {{ idle }}
</UseIdle>

Type Declarations

export interface UseIdleOptions
  extends ConfigurableWindow,
    ConfigurableEventFilter {
  /**
   * Event names that listen to for detected user activity
   *
   * @default ['mousemove', 'mousedown', 'resize', 'keydown', 'touchstart', 'wheel']
   */
  events?: WindowEventName[]
  /**
   * Listen for document visibility change
   *
   * @default true
   */
  listenForVisibilityChange?: boolean
  /**
   * Initial state of the ref idle
   *
   * @default false
   */
  initialState?: boolean
}
export interface UseIdleReturn {
  idle: Ref<boolean>
  lastActive: Ref<number>
}
/**
 * Tracks whether the user is being inactive.
 *
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useIdle
 * @param timeout default to 1 minute
 * @param options IdleOptions
 */
export declare function useIdle(
  timeout?: number,
  options?: UseIdleOptions
): UseIdleReturn
export interface UseIdleOptions
  extends ConfigurableWindow,
    ConfigurableEventFilter {
  /**
   * Event names that listen to for detected user activity
   *
   * @default ['mousemove', 'mousedown', 'resize', 'keydown', 'touchstart', 'wheel']
   */
  events?: WindowEventName[]
  /**
   * Listen for document visibility change
   *
   * @default true
   */
  listenForVisibilityChange?: boolean
  /**
   * Initial state of the ref idle
   *
   * @default false
   */
  initialState?: boolean
}
export interface UseIdleReturn {
  idle: Ref<boolean>
  lastActive: Ref<number>
}
/**
 * Tracks whether the user is being inactive.
 *
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useIdle
 * @param timeout default to 1 minute
 * @param options IdleOptions
 */
export declare function useIdle(
  timeout?: number,
  options?: UseIdleOptions
): UseIdleReturn

Source

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Contributors

Anthony Fu
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Jelf
Dan Mindru
btea
Shinigami
Alex Kozack
Antério Vieira

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Released under the MIT License.