I'm trying to listen to changes from Sails socket in the front-end using react.
Server listen to changes in a MongoDB Collection and blasts the changes:
// Setting up connection to MongoDB
const RTPEntryDB = sails.getDatastore("RTPEntrydb").manager;
// Switching to the appropriate collection in MongoDB
const profilesCollection = RTPEntryDB.collection("workloads");
// MongoDB Change Stream - Detect changes in DB's collection
const changeStream = profilesCollection.watch();
changeStream.on("change", function(change) {
console.log("new change", change);
sails.sockets.blast('newWorkloads', change);
})
This is working perfectly fine.
But on the front-end, I couldn't listen
import React, { useRef, useReducer, useEffect } from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import socketIOClient from 'socket.io-client';
import sailsIOClient from 'sails.io.js';
const FetchWorkloads = (props) => {
// Instantiate the socket client (`io`)
const io = sailsIOClient(socketIOClient);
io.sails.url = 'http://localhost:1337/';
io.socket.on('connect', function onConnect(){
console.log('This socket is now connected to the Sails server!');
});
io.socket.on('newWorkloads', (msg) => {
console.log('workloads changed', msg);
});
return (
<>
{/* My Component */}
</>
);
}
FetchWorkloads.propTypes = {
api: PropTypes.object.isRequired
};
export default FetchWorkloads;
I'm getting the error GET http://localhost:1337/__getcookie net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
. How do I resolve this?
Thanks
I resolved this by defining a custom __getcookie
in routes.js
as follows:
'GET /__getcookie': (req, res) => {
return res.send('_sailsIoJSConnect();');
},
There was also another issue with the compatibility between sails.io.js
and socket.io-client
. I was using the latest version of socket.io-client
(v4.4) but sails
was only compatible with v2.x.