ng-timeout

This is the version-agnostic project for https://github.com/jackjamieson/ng2-timeout

I will not be updating ng2-timeout although in my testing it was working up to Angular 7. This project is recreated in Angular's new library generation and will be much easier to update and maintain.

Creates observables for user idle and timeout with manual interrupts. Detects interrupts across browser tabs with storage-emitter.

Installation

To install this library, run:

$ npm install ng-timeout storage-emitter --save

Consuming library

Import library in any Angular application from your Angular AppModule:

// Import library
import { NgTimeoutService } from 'ng-timeout';
 
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    ...
  ],
  imports: [
    ...
  ],
  providers: [ NgTimeoutService ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

To use the module I recommend injecting the service into your top level app component.
From there you can control what causes interrruptions to the timers and how you want to handle idle or timeout.

import { NgTimeoutService } from '../ng-timeout';
 
private idleState: string; // if you want to show the countdown for example
 
constructor( private timeoutService: NgTimeoutService ) {
 
  this.timeoutService.setTimeToIdle(60 * 10); // 10 minutes of no interrupts will set the user to idle
  this.timeoutService.setTimeToTimeout(60); // 1 minute of no timeout interrupts will set the user as timed out
 
  // subscribe to the idle observable
  this.timeoutService.watchIdle().subscribe((isIdle: boolean) => {
    if (isIdle) {
      //  do something if the user becomes idle
    }
  });
 
  this.timeoutService.watchTimeout().subscribe((countdown: string) => {
    this.idleState = countdown;
    if(+countdown <= 0){
      // do something about the timeout
    }
  });
}

Here is an example @HostListener for detecting keypress

@HostListener('document:keypress', ['$event'])
handleKeyboardEvent(event: KeyboardEvent) {
  this.timeoutService.interruptIdle(); // interrupt the idle countdown and reset the timer if a key was pressed
  this.timeoutService.interruptTimeout(); // for illustration purposes we can also reset the timeout when a key is pressed
 
}

Development

The parent Angular project is included with this so it should be easy to set up and update. Follow Angular's guide on creating libraries.

• npm install
• edit projects/ng-timeout
• ng build ng-timeout
• output is in the dist folder

License

MIT © Jack Jamieson