Preview can be viewed and hot reloaded in a new tab

Problem

At @cosmicdreams → talk on SamePage preview (great talk!), there was a question about running the preview in a new browser tab. It sounded like this might not be possible right now with the hot reloading. I think the BroadcastChannel API can potentially be used to achieve viewing the preview in a new tab with hot reloading while editing.

Comments & Activities

Issue created by @coby.sher
Comment 10 months ago →
coby.sher
Comment 9 months ago →
🇺🇸United States cosmicdreams Minneapolis/St. Paul
As far as i understand we could:

Create (THE SAME) broadcast channel on both the edit and the preview tabs

Add to our "preview" logic (the logic invoked when we want to refresh the preview) a single sent through the broadcast channel to refresh to the preview tab

Some of the examples I've researched show that it is important to ensure your messages have a unique key / id or some kind of attempt is made to ensure that you're sure you sent the single to the correct tab.

I would prefer an api were I could target the tab I'm sending a message to.

Still, it would be fun to put a proof of concept together for this.
Status changed to Postponed 28 days ago3:39pm 31 May 2024
Comment 28 days ago →
🇺🇸United States brianperry
This would be fun to solve, but postponing for now to focus on tightening up existing features.