in src/bridge.js [84:119]
shutdown() {
if (this._isShutdown) {
console.warn('Bridge was already shutdown.');
return;
}
// Queue the shutdown outgoing message for subscribers.
this.send('shutdown');
// Mark this bridge as destroyed, i.e. disable its public API.
this._isShutdown = true;
// Disable the API inherited from EventEmitter that can add more listeners and send more messages.
(this: any).addListener = function() {};
this.emit = function() {};
// NOTE: There's also EventEmitter API like `on` and `prependListener` that we didn't add to our Flow type of EventEmitter.
// Unsubscribe this bridge incoming message listeners to be sure, and so they don't have to do that.
this.removeAllListeners();
// Stop accepting and emitting incoming messages from the wall.
const wallUnlisten = this._wallUnlisten;
if (wallUnlisten) {
wallUnlisten();
}
// Synchronously flush all queued outgoing messages.
// At this step the subscribers' code may run in this call stack.
do {
this._flush();
} while (this._messageQueue.length);
// Make sure once again that there is no dangling timer.
clearTimeout(this._timeoutID);
this._timeoutID = null;
}