How do I manually prompt Redux Offline to process items in its outbox?

[mastadong]

As far as I can tell, Redux Offline (RO) relies on changes in navigator.onLine to determine online status. This is problematic because it's unreliable. I wrote a small function that pings our API to test the connection, so I have two questions:

1. Is 'detectNetwork' the proper place to implement my ping method? Documentation and research are unclear as to exactly when this method gets called.

2. Instead of using 'detectNetwork', suppose I manually handle pinging the network, dispatching the "Offline/STATUS_CHANGED" with the result, and synchronizing the redux store. The question is, how do I manually prompt RO to begin processing items in its outbox?

Here is how I have implemented RO in my React/Typescript application:

import offlineConfig from '@redux-offline/redux-offline/lib/defaults';
import reducers from './reducers';
import persistCallback from './middleware/persistCallback';

const customConfig = {
  ...offlineConfig,
  persistCallback: persistCallback,
};

export const store = configureStore({
  reducer: reducers,
  enhancers:[offline(customConfig)]
});

If anyone has a picture or a timeline of how RO is operating, that would be a great addition to the documentation.