Running many animations on timer when the tab is in background causes a memory leak

[angryziber]

Describe the bug

Probably because Chrome throttles timers/rendering when tab is not active.

Reproduction

Run many e.g. flip animations when the browser tab is not active and it eventually crashes.

Probably all animation functions should check for
document.visibilityState === 'visible' before they are run, this will save CPU and memory when tabs are not active.

Logs

No response

System Info

Chrome 120

Severity

annoyance

[trueadm]

Is this for Svelte 4 or Svelte 5?

[angryziber]

Svelte 4

[angryziber]

We are using the following workaround now:

export const flipIfVisible: typeof flip = (...args) => (document.visibilityState === 'visible' ? flip(...args) : {});

[dummdidumm]

Could you check if this still happens in Svelte 5?

[dummdidumm]

Closing due to inactivity / lack of reproduction