React | How to detect Page Refresh (F5)

Question

I\'m using React js. I need to detect page refresh. When user hits refresh icon or press F5, I need to find out the event.

I tried with stackoverflow po

Answer 1

Unfortunately currently accepted answer cannot be more considered as acceptable since performance.navigation.type is deprecated

The newest API for that is experimental ATM. As a workaround I can only suggest to save some value in redux (or whatever you use) store to indicate state after reload and on first route change update it to indicate that route was changed not because of refresh.