useMinChat

the useMinChat hook is used to access the minchat object

import { useMinChat } from '@minchat/reactnative'

 const minchat = useMinChat()

Get Connected User

get the user that is connected to the minchat instance. Returns a User object.

 const user = minchat?.getConnectedUser()

Create User

You should create users in your MinChat application to initiate conversations with. Users are at the core of all conversations. MinChat applications are made up of users who chat in either group chats or one-to-one conversations.

in MinChat, a User is a person that uses your app. Typically, you will have one MinChat User for each user in your own database.

Usually, you would create users based on the data from your database. A User is represented by a JSON object.

const otherUser = await minchat?.createUser({ 
                                  username: "example-username", 
                                  name: "Example Name",
                                  avatar: "urltoavatar.com/avatar.jpg" //optional
                            })
                            

You can view more details about the user parameters here.

note: createUser(...) automatically creates a new user in the system, if a user with the same username already exists then it will reuse that user.

Fetching a user

You can fetch an already existing user using either their username or their id.

const otherUser = await minchat?.fetchUser("example-username")

const otherUser = await minchat?.fetchUserById("example-id")

Updating a user

You can update an existing user's information

const updatedUser = await minchat?.updateUserById("example-user-id",
                              { 
                                  name: "Updated Name",
                                  avatar: "urltoavatar.com/updated-avatar.jpg" 
                              })
                            

You can view more details about the user parameters here.