The component renders an empty element in the DOM. When mounting the component, a websocket connection is opened. The connection will be closed when the component will be unmounted.

Installing

npm install --save react-websocket

Usage

  import React from 'react';
  import Websocket from 'react-websocket';

  class ProductDetail extends React.Component {

    constructor(props) {
      super(props);
      this.state = {
        count: 90
      };
    }

    handleData(data) {
      let result = JSON.parse(data);
      this.setState({count: this.state.count + result.movement});
    }

    render() {
      return (
        <div>
          Count: <strong>{this.state.count}</strong>

          <Websocket url='ws://localhost:8888/live/product/12345/'
              onMessage={this.handleData.bind(this)}/>
        </div>
      );
    }
  }

  export default ProductDetail;

Properties

url

required The url the websocket connection is listening to.

onMessage

required The callback called when data is received. Data is JSON.parse'd

onOpen

The callback called when the connection is successfully opened.

onClose

The callback called when the connection is closed either due to server disconnect or network error.

debug

default: false Set to true to see console logging

reconnect

default: true

accelerated reconnection time