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WeakRef-Grounded Garbage Collection Tracking for Object Instances in Svelte Actions
Using object-oriented wrappers around JS WeakRef and FinalizationRegistry guarantees memory-safe tracking of DOM element instances created within Svelte node action directives.
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export class ElementRegistry {#refs = new Set();#finalizer = new FinalizationRegistry(id => {console.log(`Resource ${id} collected by GC`);});register(instance, id) {const ref = new WeakRef(instance);this.#refs.add(ref);this.#finalizer.register(instance, id, ref);}getActiveCount() {let active = 0;for (const ref of this.#refs) {if (ref.deref()) active++;}return active;}}export function trackAction(node, registryInstance) {registryInstance.register(node, node.id || 'unnamed');return {destroy() {// Cleanup action bindings}};}
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export class ElementRegistry {
Defines an OOP manager class responsible for garbage-collector aware instance tracking.
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#finalizer = new FinalizationRegistry(id => {
Instantiates a native FinalizationRegistry to monitor object collection lifecycle events.
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const ref = new WeakRef(instance);
Creates a weak reference to the DOM element allowing GC to collect it unhindered.
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if (ref.deref()) active++;
Attempts dereferencing to safely inspect target object existence without preventing collection.