`unsubscribe` method is not called if users reload the page about react-firebase-hooks HOT 3 CLOSED

I think you might have misunderstood the useEffect hook. The return function is meant to be called by React during cleanup. What makes you think that it won't be called when you navigate away?

And I think a page reload will toss out the whole javascript context, so everything including subscriptions is garbage collected.

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@0x80

Thanks for the reply.

You are correct, the cleanup function is called when the component is unmounted. However, my understanding is that the cleanup function is not called when the page is reloaded or the tab is closed.

Below is a simple demonstration video to show this.
https://github.com/9concepts/nextjs-cleanup-experiment

I could not immediately provide a demo that stays connected to Firestore when using react-firebase-hooks. I don't see any other similar reports and will close the issue until I can show an example where the connection is kept alive.

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AFAIK when a tab is closed or reloaded, nothing of the current javascript runtime survives. I would be surprised if javascript kept executing in the background. I think every tab has an isolated runtime environment. It's like closing your nodejs application on the command line, it kills everything in terms of processes and allocated memory.

I don't think technically javascript even can call the unsubscribe in such situations, because objects have no destructor like in c++.

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