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Last updated: Jun 2, 2023
This happens every day to me. Anyone else having this? Is it because there is no internet connection? I get the crash usually in the morning when I open my laptop again and left the browser tab open.
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Based on your description, this is a pretty common issue with Sanity Studio (and many web applications) when your laptop goes to sleep and the browser tab stays open. Yes, you're right that it's related to the network connection!

Here's what's happening:

When your laptop sleeps, all network connections are suspended. Sanity Studio maintains a persistent connection to keep features like real-time collaboration, live updates, and document synchronization working. When your laptop wakes up, this connection is broken and Studio may crash or become unresponsive while trying to reconnect.

Quick fixes:

  1. Simple refresh: Just refresh the browser tab (Cmd/Ctrl + R) when you open your laptop in the morning. This re-establishes all connections cleanly.

  2. Hard refresh: If a normal refresh doesn't work, try Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + R to clear the cache and reload.

  3. Close and reopen: If it's completely frozen, close the tab and open Studio again.

Prevention strategies:

  • Some users find it helpful to close Studio tabs before closing their laptop if they know they'll be offline for a while
  • Check your browser's settings - some browsers have aggressive memory management that can interfere with long-running applications
  • Make sure you're on a recent version of Sanity Studio (v3 or v4), as older versions had more connection issues

If the problem persists:

  • Check your browser console (F12) when it crashes - error messages there can help identify if it's specifically a websocket issue or something else
  • Try a different browser to see if it's browser-specific
  • Consider updating your Studio dependencies with npm update or yarn upgrade

This is a known behavior with web applications that maintain persistent connections, and you're definitely not alone in experiencing it. The quick refresh in the morning should become second nature!

Hi
user C
. Yes, that appears to be the cause. If it’s something you encounter other than when opening your laptop and returning to your Studio, please let us know.
Hello
user C
, I've never seen this before, but I did manage to generate it...once...and then one or two similar, all around browser tab starts and internet conditions.
Considering how these occur vs. more common messages only in the console when internet isn't present, I think this is managed by Sanity design, so that you only get an onscreen alert and Retry when Studio is actually trying to do something -- like recreate a view you request, or had before. This would be so you wouldn't get just a frozen screen, or silent misfunction.

Thinking this way leads to wondering if what you see has to do with the
shutdown of the computer, rather than the startup next time of the browser...particularly if you simply use a button or menu as one might, to finish for the day, rather than first closing the browser.
Windows isn't very good about how it chooses to stop programs in that situation, and can easily leave one in a bad state. I wonder then if you might try simply closing Studio's browser manually before you shut down, and see if that makes the problem go away?

Good fortune on it,
Clive

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