Is it possible to truncate start of events and still watch the replay? about rrweb HOT 5 CLOSED

@ChuckJonas Added this in #36, please let me know if you like it or not:)

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Looking at my truncated attempts I think the problem is that my event are all EventType. IncrementalSnapshot.

So maybe this would be possible if I somehow was able to incrementally restart with EventType. FullSnapshot?

Seems like I could achieve something similar by just having 2-3 offset & restarting rrweb.record instances running at once, but since there is no way to stop recording (#16), I'm sure this is not a good idea.

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I think the stop recording ability can let you have a workaround solution. But it will be better if we add a take a full snapshot after N incremental snapshot option, is that what you need?

For example, take a full snapshot after 5 incremental snapshots will give you a snapshot chain like this:

FS1 -> IS1 -> ... -> IS5 -> FS2 -> IS6 -> ... -> IS10 -> FS3 -> ...

So you can replay from the latest full snapshot and drop the previous snapshots if you do not need them.

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@Yuyz0112
The latter solution you proposed could work for my use case. My only concern is that it might be tricky to balance performance due to variable activity (if the user was generating lots of events vs none at all).

I think a more robust solution would be to expose someway to trigger a full snapshot event emit yourself.

IMO, the most intuitive way of doing this would require changing the return of the record to an object (instead of just a stop function):

let recorder = rrweb.record({
  emit(event) {
    //save event
  },
});

//call recorder 'captureFullSnapshot' method every 10 sec
let fullCapture = setInterval(1000 * 10, recorder.captureFullSnapshot);

//stop after 1min
setTimeout(1000 * 60, () => { 
     recorder.stop();   
     clearInterval(fullCapture);
}); 

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@ChuckJonas how about provides two modes?
take one full snapshot after N incremental snapshot and take one full snapshot after N ms?
Expose something like captureFullsnapshot may look too low-level for most of the developers.

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