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frontend/src/Home.tsx

@@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ export default function Home({ socket }: Props) {
   }, [])
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    const interval = setInterval(() => client.running(), 1000)
-    return () => clearInterval(interval)
-  }, [])
+    if (status.connected) {
+      client.running()
+      const interval = setInterval(() => client.running(), 1000)
+      return () => clearInterval(interval)
+    }
+  }, [status.connected])
 
   useEffect(() => {
     client.freeSpace()
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ export default function Home({ socket }: Props) {
       switch (typeof res.result) {
         case 'object':
           setActiveDownloads(
-            res.result
+            (res.result ?? [])
               .filter((r: RPCResult) => !!r.info.url)
               .sort((a: RPCResult, b: RPCResult) => a.info.title.localeCompare(b.info.title))
           )

frontend/src/types.d.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 export type RPCMethods =
   | "Service.Exec"
   | "Service.Kill"
+  | "Service.Clear"
   | "Service.Running"
   | "Service.KillAll"
   | "Service.FreeSpace"

server/process.go

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ func (p *Process) Complete() {
 
 // Kill a process and remove it from the memory
 func (p *Process) Kill() error {
+	p.mem.Delete(p.id)
 	// yt-dlp uses multiple child process the parent process
 	// has been spawned with setPgid = true. To properly kill
 	// all subprocesses a SIGTERM need to be sent to the correct
@@ -176,8 +177,8 @@ func (p *Process) Kill() error {
 		return err
 	}
 	err = syscall.Kill(-pgid, syscall.SIGTERM)
-	p.mem.Delete(p.id)
-	log.Printf("Killed process %s\n", p.id)
+
+	log.Println("Killed process", p.id)
 	return err
 }
 

server/service.go

@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ func (t *Service) KillAll(args NoArgs, killed *string) error {
 	return err
 }
 
+// Remove a process from the db rendering it unusable if active
+func (t *Service) Clear(args string, killed *string) error {
+	log.Println("Clearing process with id", args)
+	db.Delete(args)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // FreeSpace gets the available from package sys util
 func (t *Service) FreeSpace(args NoArgs, free *uint64) error {
 	freeSpace, err := sys.FreeSpace()