SocketIO Hooks

What is it

socketio-hooks is a library which provides a bunch of React Hooks to easily connect and manage SocketIO.

Installation

You can get the latest release using npm:

$ npm install --save socketio-hooks

Example

In order to be able to use the hooks, you first have to render the Provider somewhere before your component and pass the connection options, like:

import React from "react";
import { SocketIOProvider } from "socketio-hooks";

const Providers: React.FunctionComponent<{}> = ({ children }) => {
  return (
    <SocketIOProvider
      url="http://localhost:8080/"
      namespaces={["feed", "chat"]}
      connectionOptions={{ query: { hello: "world" } }}
    >
      ...
      {children}
      ...
    </SocketIOProvider>
  );
};

IMPORTANT until we solve some issues it is recommended that you put the Provider very close to the root of your app, similar to what you would do with a Redux Provider

And then in your component, you can import any hook like this:

import React, { useState } from "react";
import { useSocket, useEvent, useNamespace, useEmit } from "socketio-hooks";

const Feed: React.FunctionComponent<{}> = ({}) => {
  const [tweets, setTweets] = useState([]);

  // You can use this hook, which provides the event and the namespace socket
  const socket = useSocket("new.tweet", "feed", tweet => {
    setTweets(tweets => [...tweets, tweet]);
  });

  // You can get the socket instance for the namespace you want
  const defaultSocket = useNamespace();
  // Or
  const feedSocket = useNamespace("feed");

  // Or you can use granular hooks to have a better control in your code, like this
  useEvent("new.tweet", "feed", tweet => {
    setTweets(tweets => [...tweets, tweet]);
  });
  const sendTweet = useEmit("send.tweet", "feed");

  // You can also have multiple events registered
  useSocket("new.message", "chat", message => {
    console.log(`Someone sent me this message: ${message}`);
  });

  const onButtonClick = () => {
    sendTweet("Sending a tweet is so easy");
  };

  return (
    <>
      <ul>
        {tweets.map(tweet => (
          <li>{tweet}</li>
        ))}
      </ul>
      <button onClick={onButtonClick}>Send a Tweet</button>
    </>
  );
};

API

SocketIOProvider

Prop	Required	Default	Type	Description
url	true		string	Url used to connect to the server
namespaces	false	[]	string[]	Namespaces to connect. If no one provided, the only namespace available will be the default ("/")
connectionOptions	false	undefined	SocketIOClient.ConnectOpts	Object with options to be passed when connecting to SocketIO

useNamespace()

Parameters

• namespace | String - Required. Namespace to return the socket;

useEvent()

Parameters

• event | String - Required. Event which the socket will listen to.
• namespace | String - Optional. Namespace which the event will listen.

useEmit()

Parameters

• event | String - Required. Event which the socket will emit the message to.
• namespace | String - Optional. Namespace which the socket will emit the message to.

useSocket()

Parameters

• event | String - Required. Event which the socket will listen to.
• namespace | String - Optional. Namespace which the event will listen.
• callback | Function - Required. Function that will be called once the event is triggered.