Automatically Logout All Tab Using VueUse Broadcast Channel with Pinia

Let's say you encounter a problem where you have opened your application in multiple tabs and when you attempt to log out, only one tab gets logged out while the other tabs remain active.

To solve this problem, you can use a Broadcast Channel.
This concept works like a publish and subscribe system — one tab publishes an event and all others listen for it.

Install VueUse

First, install VueUse:

npm i @vueuse/core

Publish a Logout Message in the Auth Store (Pinia)

In your auth store, create a broadcast channel and send a logout signal when the user logs out:

import { useBroadcastChannel } from '@vueuse/core'

const { post } = useBroadcastChannel({ name: 'your-channel' })

export const useAuthStore = defineStore('auth', {
  state: () => ({
    // your data
  }),
  actions: {
    async logout() {
      // refresh token and clear from API

      post('logout')
    }
  },
})

Subscribe to the Logout Message in App.vue

Here, we subscribe to a logout message and monitor the data to check whether the published message is received or not.

import { useAuthStore } from '@/stores/auth'
import { useBroadcastChannel } from '@vueuse/core'
import { watch } from 'vue'

const authStore = useAuthStore()

const { data, close } = useBroadcastChannel({ name: 'ibook-channel' })

const logout = async () => {
  try {
    // perform logout logic here if needed
  } catch (e) {
    console.error(e)
  }
}

watch(data, () => {
  if (data.value == 'logout') {
    reloadNuxtApp()
    close()
  }
})

Done!

When using this approach, all open tabs that subscribe to the same broadcast channel will receive the logout event.
As a result, when a user logs out in one tab, all tabs will log out automatically and refresh.

That’s it!