How to detect idle time in JavaScript elegantly?

Question

Is it possible to detect \"idle\" time in JavaScript?
My primary use case probably would be to pre-fetch or preload content.

Idle time:

Answer 1

Pure JavaScript with properly set reset time and bindings via addEventListener

(function() {

  var t,
    timeout = 5000;

  function resetTimer() {
    console.log("reset: " + new Date().toLocaleString());
    if (t) { 
      window.clearTimeout(t); 
    }
    t = window.setTimeout(logout, timeout);
  }

  function logout() {
    console.log("done: " + new Date().toLocaleString());
  }
  resetTimer();

  //And bind the events to call `resetTimer()`
  ["click", "mousemove", "keypress"].forEach(function(name) {
    console.log(name);
    document.addEventListener(name, resetTimer);
  });

}());