Alpine JS Poll

Alpine.js plugin for polling and visibility tracking.

What you get

• x-poll - Execute expressions at intervals
• x-visible - React to page visibility changes
• Visibility-aware polling with .visible modifier
• Supports ms, s, m, h time units

Install

CDN

<script defer src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs-poll@latest/dist/cdn.min.js"></script>
<script defer src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs@latest/dist/cdn.min.js"></script>

Package

npm install -D alpinejs-poll

import Alpine from 'alpinejs'
import poll from 'alpinejs-poll'

Alpine.plugin(poll)
Alpine.start()

Usage

x-poll

Execute an expression at regular intervals. Executes immediately on init, then at each interval.

<div x-data="{ count: 0 }" x-poll.1s="count++">
  Count: <span x-text="count"></span>
</div>

Time Units

Modifier	Description
.500ms	500 milliseconds
.1s	1 second
.5m	5 minutes
.1h	1 hour

Default interval is 60 seconds if not specified.

<!-- Poll every 5 seconds -->
<div x-poll.5s="fetchData()">...</div>

<!-- Poll every 100ms -->
<div x-poll.100ms="tick()">...</div>

<!-- Poll every 2 minutes -->
<div x-poll.2m="refresh()">...</div>

x-poll.visible

Only poll when the page is visible. Executes immediately when visibility is restored.

<div x-data="{ data: null }" x-poll.5s.visible="data = await fetchData()">
  <span x-text="data"></span>
</div>

Visibility is tracked via:

• document.visibilitychange - tab switching
• window.focus / window.blur - window focus
• pageshow / pagehide - iOS PWA / bfcache

x-visible

React to page visibility changes. Use $visible to access the visibility state.

<div x-data="{ status: 'visible' }" x-visible="status = $visible ? 'visible' : 'hidden'">
  Status: <span x-text="status"></span>
</div>

<!-- Pause video when tab is hidden -->
<video x-data x-visible="$visible ? $el.play() : $el.pause()">
  <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

<!-- Track visibility changes -->
<div x-data="{ count: 0 }" x-visible="count++">
  Visibility changed <span x-text="count"></span> times
</div>

Examples

Auto-refresh data

<div x-data="{ users: [] }" x-poll.30s.visible="users = await (await fetch('/api/users')).json()">
  <template x-for="user in users">
    <div x-text="user.name"></div>
  </template>
</div>

Live clock

<div x-data="{ time: new Date() }" x-poll.1s="time = new Date()">
  <span x-text="time.toLocaleTimeString()"></span>
</div>

Connection status

<div x-data="{ online: true }" x-visible="online = $visible">
  <span x-show="online">Online</span>
  <span x-show="!online">Away</span>
</div>

License

MIT