Auto logout with Angularjs based on idle user

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Is it possible to determine if a user is inactive and automatically log them out after say 10 minutes of inactivity using angularjs   I was trying to avoid using jQuery  but I cannot find any tutorials or articles on how to do this in angularjs  Any help would be appreciated

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I think Buu s digest cycle watch is genius  Thanks for sharing  As others have noted  interval also causes the digest cycle to run  We could for the purpose of auto logging the user out use setInterval which will not cause a digest loop   app run function  rootScope        var lastDigestRun   new Date        setInterval function              var now   Date now            if  now - lastDigestRun  gt  10   60   1000                logout                  60   1000         rootScope  watch function             lastDigestRun   new Date

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I have used ng-idle for this and added a little logout and  token null code and it is working fine  you can try this  Thanks  HackedByChinese for making such a nice module   In IdleTimeout i have just deleted my session data and token      Here is my code    scope  on  IdleTimeout   function              closeModals            delete  window sessionStorage token           state go  login             scope timedout    uibModal open               templateUrl   timedout-dialog html               windowClass   modal-danger

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ng-Idle looks like the way to go  but I could not figure out Brian F s modifications and wanted to timeout for a sleeping session too  also I had a pretty simple use case in mind   I pared it down to the code below   It hooks events to reset a timeout flag  lazily placed in  rootScope    It only detects the timeout has happened when the user returns  and triggers an event  but that s good enough for me   I could not get angular s  location to work here but again  using document location href gets the job done   I stuck this in my app js after the  config has run   app run function  rootScope  document       var d   new Date      var n   d getTime       n in ms       rootScope idleEndTime   n  20 60 1000     set end time to 20 min from now      document find  body   on  mousemove keydown DOMMouseScroll mousewheel mousedown touchstart   checkAndResetIdle     monitor events      function checkAndResetIdle     user did something             var d   new Date          var n   d getTime       n in ms          if  n gt  rootScope idleEndTime                         document find  body   off  mousemove keydown DOMMouseScroll mousewheel mousedown touchstart      un-monitor events                 location search  IntendedURL   location absUrl    path   login      terminate by sending to login page             document location href    https   whatever com myapp   login               alert  Session ended due to inactivity                      else                        rootScope idleEndTime   n  20 60 1000     reset end time

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I wrote a module called Ng-Idle that may be useful to you in this situation  Here is the page which contains instructions and a demo   Basically  it has a service that starts a timer for your idle duration that can be disrupted by user activity  events  such as clicking  scrolling  typing   You can also manually interrupt the timeout by calling a method on the service  If the timeout is not disrupted  then it counts down a warning where you could alert the user they are going to be logged out  If they do not respond after the warning countdown reaches 0  an event is broadcasted that your application can respond to  In your case  it could issue a request to kill their session and redirect to a login page   Additionally  it has a keep-alive service that can ping some URL at an interval  This can be used by your app to keep a user s session alive while they are active  The idle service by default integrates with the keep-alive service  suspending the pinging if they become idle  and resuming it when they return   All the info you need to get started is on the site with more details in the wiki  However  here s a snippet of config showing how to sign them out when they time out   angular module  demo     ngIdle       omitted for brevity  config function IdleProvider  KeepaliveProvider      IdleProvider idle 10 60      10 minutes idle   IdleProvider timeout 30      after 30 seconds idle  time the user out   KeepaliveProvider interval 5 60      5 minute keep-alive ping     run function  rootScope         rootScope  on  IdleTimeout   function                end their session and redirect to login

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View Demo which is using angularjs and see your s browser log   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html ng-app  Application TimeOut  gt   lt head gt   lt script src  http   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs angular js 1 2 20 angular min js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt  body gt    lt script gt   var app   angular module  Application TimeOut        app run function  rootScope   timeout   document            console log  starting run            Timeout timer value     var TimeOutTimerValue   5000          Start a timeout     var TimeOut Thread    timeout function    LogoutByTimer       TimeOutTimerValue       var bodyElement   angular element  document            Keyboard Events     bodyElement bind  keydown   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e            bodyElement bind  keyup   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                   Mouse Events         bodyElement bind  click   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e          bodyElement bind  mousemove   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e              bodyElement bind  DOMMouseScroll   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e          bodyElement bind  mousewheel   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e             bodyElement bind  mousedown   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                       Touch Events     bodyElement bind  touchstart   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                 bodyElement bind  touchmove   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                       Common Events     bodyElement bind  scroll   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                 bodyElement bind  focus   function  e    TimeOut Resetter e               function LogoutByTimer                 console log  Logout                                                                             redirect to another page eg  Login html  here                                                                        function TimeOut Resetter e                console log      e                Stop the pending timeout          timeout cancel TimeOut Thread                Reset the timeout         TimeOut Thread    timeout function    LogoutByTimer       TimeOutTimerValue              lt  script gt    lt  html gt    Below code is pure javascript version   lt html gt       lt head gt           lt script type  text javascript  gt                       function logout                    console log  Logout                               function onInactive millisecond  callback                   var wait   setTimeout callback  millisecond                                  document onmousemove                    document mousedown                    document mouseup                    document onkeydown                    document onkeyup                    document focus   function                        clearTimeout wait                       wait   setTimeout callback  millisecond                                                                               lt  script gt       lt  head gt        lt body onload  onInactive 5000  logout    gt  lt  body gt   lt  html gt    UPDATE  I updated my solution as  Tom suggestion    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html ng-app  Application TimeOut  gt   lt head gt   lt script src  http   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs angular js 1 2 20 angular min js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt  body gt    lt script gt  var app   angular module  Application TimeOut        app run function  rootScope   timeout   document            console log  starting run            Timeout timer value     var TimeOutTimerValue   5000          Start a timeout     var TimeOut Thread    timeout function    LogoutByTimer       TimeOutTimerValue       var bodyElement   angular element  document        angular forEach   keydown    keyup    click    mousemove    DOMMouseScroll    mousewheel    mousedown    touchstart    touchmove    scroll    focus         function EventName             bodyElement bind EventName  function  e    TimeOut Resetter e                     function LogoutByTimer            console log  Logout                                                                            redirect to another page eg  Login html  here                                                                        function TimeOut Resetter e           console log       e                Stop the pending timeout          timeout cancel TimeOut Thread                Reset the timeout         TimeOut Thread    timeout function    LogoutByTimer       TimeOutTimerValue              lt  script gt   lt  html gt    Click here to see at Plunker for updated version

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I would like to expand the answers to whoever might be using this in a bigger project  you could accidentally attach multiple event handlers and the program would behave weirdly   To get rid of that  I used a singleton function exposed by a factory  from which you would call inactivityTimeoutFactory switchTimeoutOn   and inactivityTimeoutFactory switchTimeoutOff   in your angular application to respectively activate and deactivate the logout due to inactivity functionality   This way you make sure you are only running a single instance of the event handlers  no matter how many times you try to activate the timeout procedure  making it easier to use in applications where the user might login from different routes   Here is my code    use strict    angular module  YOURMODULENAME      factory  inactivityTimeoutFactory   inactivityTimeoutFactory    inactivityTimeoutFactory  inject      document     timeout     state     function inactivityTimeoutFactory  document   timeout   state       function InactivityTimeout             singleton     if  InactivityTimeout prototype  singletonInstance          return InactivityTimeout prototype  singletonInstance            InactivityTimeout prototype  singletonInstance   this          Timeout timer value     const timeToLogoutMs   15 1000 60    15 minutes     const timeToWarnMs   13 1000 60    13 minutes         variables     let warningTimer      let timeoutTimer      let isRunning       function switchOn            if   isRunning            switchEventHandlers  on            startTimeout            isRunning   true                     function switchOff            switchEventHandlers  off          cancelTimersAndCloseMessages          isRunning   false             function resetTimeout           cancelTimersAndCloseMessages             reset timeout threads       startTimeout               function cancelTimersAndCloseMessages               stop any pending timeout        timeout cancel timeoutTimer          timeout cancel warningTimer            remember to close any messages            function startTimeout            warningTimer    timeout processWarning  timeToWarnMs         timeoutTimer    timeout processLogout  timeToLogoutMs              function processWarning              show warning using popup modules  toasters etc               function processLogout              go to logout page  The state might differ from project to project        state go  authentication logout               function switchEventHandlers toNewStatus          const body   angular element  document         const trackedEventsList              keydown            keyup            click            mousemove            DOMMouseScroll            mousewheel            mousedown            touchstart            touchmove            scroll            focus                  trackedEventsList forEach  eventName    gt            if  toNewStatus      off               body off eventName  resetTimeout             else if  toNewStatus      on               body on eventName  resetTimeout                                     expose switch methods     this switchOff   switchOff      this switchOn   switchOn         return       switchTimeoutOn             new InactivityTimeout    switchOn               switchTimeoutOff             new InactivityTimeout    switchOff

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There should be different ways to do it and each approach should fit a particular application better than another  For most apps  you can simply just handle key or mouse events and enable disable a logout timer appropriately   That said  on the top of my head  a  fancy  AngularJS-y solution is monitoring the digest loop  if none has been triggered for the last  specified duration  then logout   Something like this   app run function  rootScope      var lastDigestRun   new Date       rootScope  watch function detectIdle         var now   new Date        if  now - lastDigestRun  gt  10 60 60              logout here  like delete cookie  navigate to login               lastDigestRun   now

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You could also accomplish using angular-activity-monitor in a more straight forward way than injecting multiple providers and it uses setInterval    vs  angular s  interval  to avoid manually triggering a digest loop  which is important to prevent keeping items alive unintentionally    Ultimately  you just subscribe to a few events that determine when a user is inactive or becoming close  So if you wanted to log out a user after 10 minutes of inactivity  you could use the following snippet   angular module  myModule     ActivityMonitor      MyController  inject     ActivityMonitor    function MyController ActivityMonitor         how long  in seconds  until user is considered inactive   ActivityMonitor options inactive   600     ActivityMonitor on  inactive   function            user is considered inactive  logout etc           ActivityMonitor on  keepAlive   function            items to keep alive in the background while user is active          ActivityMonitor on  warning   function            alert user when they re nearing inactivity

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I tried out Buu s approach and couldn t get it quite right due to the sheer number of events that trigger the digester to execute  including  interval and  timeout functions executing  This leaves the application in a state where it never be idle regardless of user input   If you actually need to track user idle time I am not sure that there is a good angular approach  I would suggest that a better approach is represented by Witoldz here https   github com witoldsz angular-http-auth  This approach will prompt the user to reauthenticate when an action is taken that requires their credentials  After the user has authenticated the previous failed request is reprocessed and the application continues on as if nothing happened   This handles the concern that you might have of letting the user s session expire while they are active since even if their authentication expires they are still able to retain the application state and not lose any work   If you have some kind of session on your client  cookies  tokens  etc  you could watch them as well and trigger your logout process if they expire   app run    interval   function  interval       interval function         if     session still exists             else            log out of client            1000          UPDATE  Here is a plunk that demonstrates the concern  http   plnkr co edit ELotD8W8VAeQfbYFin1W  What this demonstates is that the digester run time is updated only when the interval ticks  Once the interval reaches it max count then the digester will no longer run

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Played with Boo s approach  however don t like the fact that user got kicked off only once another digest is run  which means user stays logged in until he tries to do something within the page  and then immediatelly kicked off   I am trying to force the logoff using interval which checks every minute if last action time was more than 30 minutes ago  I hooked it on  routeChangeStart  but could be also hooked on  rootScope  watch as in Boo s example   app run function  rootScope   location   interval         var lastDigestRun   Date now        var idleCheck    interval function             var now   Date now                        if  now - lastDigestRun  gt  30 60 1000                  logout                  60 1000         rootScope  on   routeChangeStart   function evt            lastDigestRun   Date now

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