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The Page Visibility API 📎

The Page Visibility API is useful for removing listeners (or stopping background processes) from hidden tabs or pages.

You only have to register a visibilitychange listener:


document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', _ => { 
    const state = document.visibilityState;
    console.log('document is: ',state);
})    

Hiding the page / making it visible again prints:


document is:  hidden
document is:  visible    

See it in action:

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