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How to use socket.on in react?

I am building a small chat app, but I have problems with receiving messages in react. The problem is that when I receive a message I setMessages, but at the same time the messages state gets cleared. The problem is problably that I don't know where to place socket.on, currently it's inside a useEffect hook.

export const Room = ({ socket }) => {
  const [messages, setMessages] = useState([]);
  const [input, setInput] = useState("");
  const { id } = useParams();
  
  useEffect(() => {
    socket.emit("join room", id);
  }, []);

  useEffect(() => {
    socket.on("message", (message) => {
      setMessages([
        ...messages,
        { message: message, createdBy: "other", id: uuidv4() },
      ]);
    });
  }, []);
  const sendMessage = () => {
    console.log("send");
    socket.emit("message", input);
    setMessages([
      ...messages,
      { message: input, createdBy: "me", id: uuidv4() },
    ]);
  };
  console.log("foo");
  return (
    <div className="flex justify-center text-center">
      <div className="w-screen h-screen px-2 max-w-4xl mt-10">
        <p className="text-3xl">Code: {id}</p>
        <div className="bg-white w-full h-3/4 rounded-xl border-2 border-black overflow-y-auto">
          {messages.map((message) => (
            <Message
              text={message.message}
              createdBy={message.createdBy}
              key={message.id}
            />
          ))}
        </div>
        <div className="flex flex-row border-2 border-black mt-2 rounded-xl p-2 bg-white">
          <input
            className="flex-grow border-none focus:outline-none"
            onInput={(e) => setInput(e.target.value)}
          />
          <button
            className=" bg-green-500 rounded-xl px-2 py-1"
            onClick={sendMessage}
          >
            Send
          </button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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I'm pretty sure you have a closure problem. messages is not what you think it is when it is run inside the useEffect -- it may not be the latest version.

It's safer and good practice to use the functional variant of the setter. This way you can be certain that messages is the current version:

setMessages(messages => [
  ...messages,
  { message: message, createdBy: "other", id: uuidv4() },
]);
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