you can turn off automatic connection beforehand

[xushnud123]

i want to cancel automatic connection beforehand how can i do it

[ElectricCoffee]

There's a third parameter to the useWebSocket hook which isn't documented.

Setting it to false will prevent automatic connection and disconnect the websocket if it is already connected

[HarunKilic]

This should've been documented. I've been using hours to find a workaround for this :D

[ElectricCoffee]

This should've been documented. I've been using hours to find a workaround for this :D

I only found out about it because I had a feature request to add it in: #208

[robtaussig]

This should've been documented. I've been using hours to find a workaround for this :D

I’m sorry for your time! It is not entirely undocumented: https://github.com/robtaussig/react-use-websocket#interface

Do you have any thoughts regarding a better place for it?

[HarunKilic]

This should've been documented. I've been using hours to find a workaround for this :D

I’m sorry for your time! It is not entirely undocumented: https://github.com/robtaussig/react-use-websocket#interface

Do you have any thoughts regarding a better place for it?

I was looking for a section that would show how to disable it at initialization.

[markrickert]

I stumbled upon my solution to my react-native problem in this thread. I want the websocket to disconnect when the app is in the background and reconnect when the app is foregrounded. Some delay could be built into this too.

Here's how I solved it for my use case in react-native:

import { useAppState } from "@react-native-community/hooks"

// in your functional component:
const appState = useAppState()
const appIsActive = appState === "active"
const ws = useWebSocket(
  socketURL, 
  {
      shouldReconnect: () => appIsActive,
      // Other options
  },
  appIsActive, // boolean to indicate if the websocket should be connected or not.
)