There was no timely and reliable way to detect when a MessagePort becomes disentangled, which made it difficult to release resources associated with ports. We proposed to add a close event to MessagePort API. The close event has landed to the HTML spec. Chrome has already completed implementation and itβs close to ship. Initial issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1766 Explainer: https://github.com/fergald/explainer-messageport-close HTML spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#disentangle Chrome status: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5086799659794432 Mozilla standards position: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/914 WebKit standards position: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/271 HTML spec PR: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9933
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This should not be implemented until https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10201 is resolved.