I am facing a problem where the react is rendering 2 times but I do not see any problem in the code or it is come from the socket? I noticed this problem when consoling and when displaying data, the data duplicate. Below I put my client react code with the server socket code.
React client
import "./App.css";
import io from "socket.io-client";
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
const socket = io.connect("http://localhost:3001");
function App() {
const [text, setText] = useState("");
const [room, setRoom] = useState("");
const [data, setData] = useState([]);
const [action, setAction] = useState(true);
console.log("data", data);
console.log(text);
console.log(room);
const sendMessage = () => {
socket.emit("send_message", { text, room });
};
const joinRoom = () => {
if (room !== "") {
socket.emit("join_room", room);
}
};
useEffect(() => {
socket.on("receive_message", (msg) => {
setData((prev) => [
...prev,
{
message: msg,
},
]);
});
}, [action]);
return (
<div className="App">
{data.map((da) => (
<p>{da.message}</p>
))}
<input
type="text"
placeholder="room no"
onChange={(e) => {
setRoom(e.target.value);
}}
></input>
<button onClick={joinRoom}>Join</button>
<br />
<input
type="text"
placeholder="message .."
onChange={(e) => {
setText(e.target.value);
}}
></input>
<button onClick={sendMessage}>Send Message</button>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
Socket server
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const http = require("http");
const { Server } = require("socket.io");
const cors = require("cors");
app.use(cors());
const server = http.createServer(app);
const io = new Server(server, {
cors: {
origin: "http://localhost:3000",
methods: ["GET", "POST"],
},
});
io.on("connection", (socket) => {
// console.log(`User Connected ${socket.id}`);
socket.on("join_room", (data) =>{
socket.join(data);
})
socket.on("send_message", (data) => {
socket.to(data.room).emit("receive_message", data.text);
})
});
server.listen(3001, () => {
console.log("SERVER OK");
});