useConnection Hook - React

useConnection hook abstracts connection class and takes all the properties and events as parameters and returns all the properties and methods to work connection instance.

useConnection example

useConnection react hook

import {
    useConnection,
} from "@videosdk.live/react-sdk";

function onParticipantJoined(participant) {
    console.log("Participant Joined", participant);
}

function onParticipantLeft() {
    console.log("Participant left");
}

function onChatMessage(message) {
    console.log("Chat Message: ", message)
}

const {
    connection
} = useConnection({
    connectionId,
    onMeeting: {
        {
            onParticipantJoined,
            onParticipantLeft,
            onChatMessage
        }
    }
});

Parameters

connectionId

• type : String

• REQUIRED

• connectionId represents the meetingId you had passed in connectTo()

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onMeeting

• type : Object

• OPTIONAL

• onMeeting is a object of onParticipantJoined, onParticipantLeft and onChatMessage callbacks for the meeting you are connected to.

• onParticipantJoined()

  • This event callback is trigger when a new participant joins the connected meeting.

• onParticipantLeft()

  • This event callback is trigger when a participant leaves the connected meeting.

• onChatMessage()

  • This event callback is trigger when a new message is received in the connected meeting.

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Returns

• useConnection returns an object of Connection which has following properties and methods.

id

• type : String
• It represents the meetingId of the meeting you have established a connection with.

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payload

• type : String
• Any arbitrary payload you define during the connection.

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participants

• type : [Participant]
• Represents Participants of connected meeting.

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meeting

• meeting will be of type object which will have id, sendChatMessage(), end() and participants.

• id

  • id will have meetingId for the meeting you are connected to.

• sendChatMessage()

  • If you want to communicate participants of connected meetings, it can be achieved by sendChatMessage.

  • Paramaters - message : String

  • When any participant of Meeting A sends a chat message to Meeting B, then onChatMessage event will be emitted to all participants of Meeting B.

Example

connection.meeting.sendChatMessage("Hi there, from MARS!");

• end()

  • end() is used to end the connected meeting.
  • After executing this method, all participants of that meeting will leave automatically.

Example

connection.meeting.end();

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Method

close()

• close() is used to close the connection with meeting.

• onConnectionClose event of meeting class is triggered to all participant whenever connection.close() being called.

Example

connection.close();