use-api-polling v0.1.4

useAPIPolling

Simple react hook for data polling. Executes async function every N seconds, updates state and handles all setTimeout/clearTimeout stuff for you.

Benefits

• Simple API

• Small size (only 547 bytes)

• Typescript support

• Will not make additional async function call if previous doesn't complete

Install

Using npm

npm install --save use-api-polling

Or yarn

yarn add use-api-polling

Usage

import React from 'react'
import useAPIPolling, { APIPollingOptions } from 'use-api-polling'
import API from './api'

type DataType = {
  img: string
  title: string
}

const App = () => {
  const fetchFunc = async () => {
    const cats = await API.getCats()
    return cats
  }

  const options: APIPollingOptions<DataType> = {
    fetchFunc,
    initialState: [],
    delay: 5000
  }
  const data = useAPIPolling(options)

  return <Gallery data={data} />
}

API

APIPollingOptions<DataType>