Redux-devtools-extension: How to remove instance from monitor?

[Lucifier129]

Hi
In my single-page-app, every page view has its own redux store, how can I remove instance from monitor when we don't need a redux store anymore?

[zalmoxisus]

Removing instances wouldn't be quite reliable as you'll have to do that everytime when they are loaded/reloaded. Plus complexity in the UI and adding a way to bring them back. Maybe an option to whitelist/blacklist instances. Later that could be combined with the UI where you can blacklist them right from the dropdown.

[Lucifier129]

Thx for the reply

[zalmoxisus]

No problems, let's keep it open and look to add in 3.0.

[krnsk0]

Wanted to bump this. Working on a project based on a microfrontends architecture in which multiple applications each with their own stores are composed together by the client, and there's risk of memory problems in dev mode due to an inability to dereference old stores (as devtools holds on to the reference). Perhaps a function could be exposed that allows passing the name of a store from which to unsubscribe? That would allow the GC to do its work-- and also improve DX in applications based on multiple stores. Happy to look into helping make this change but would likely need a bit of guidance.

[gunn4r]

In the exact same situation as @krnsk0. Looking for a way to clear/dereference stores when they are no longer needed.

[krnsk0]

@gunn4r I haven’t done this yet but it looks like the underlying api returns an unsubscribe function which we can use without needing to put in a PR: https://extension.remotedev.io/docs/API/Methods.html. It just means writing something yourself instead of using COMPOSE that hooks in to the lower-level api