Reactive "connected" property

[Sjoerd82]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

Describe the solution you'd like On my GUI I'm showing a "connected"/"disconnected" icon. However, the connected property is not reactive. It would be nice to expose the connected property as an event, or make it otherwise reactive. I see that an "Observable" class is used, I am not familiar with it. Could it be that SyncedStore already makes this reactive?

Describe alternatives you've considered I have no (good) alternative ideas.

Additional context Related: https://discuss.yjs.dev/t/vue3-syncedstore-reactivity/1683

[Ajayghoshm]

same here, how to make things reactive?

[dmonad]

The concept of "connected" is not well defined in y-webrtc. In y-websocket, we can say that we are connected to the server. But in y-webrtc, there are many different kinds of endpoints we are connected to.

I assume you are interested in whether you are connected to other peers? Then you could listen to the peers event (it is mentioned in the discussion you mentioned) and update a local variable whenever it is changed.

Observable is a simple class that enabled you to listen to events: instance.on('event', function). Yjs & y-webrtc are not reactive.

[Ajayghoshm]

True, i tried using the .on(peer,()=>{}) but it gives me inconsistent data, when i rejoin the same room again from the same system, instead of having only actual peer list, I have 3 or 4 peers based on the number of times i joined.

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[dmonad]

That sounds about right. There is no distinction between a "remote" peer and a peer that is hosted on the same computer. Maybe you want to use y-websocket instead?

[Ajayghoshm]

I am trying to use both at same time, y-websocket and y-webrtc with a common awareness, will this approach have any issues?

[dmonad]

Sounds like overkill. But sure, that should work. You can mash yjs-providers however you want. But since there is unnecessary computational overhead you should probably only choose one of them. From what I hear, you want a "connected" event - indicating when you received the "latest state". That really only exist when you use y-websocket. There is no way to know when you synced with all y-webrtc peers (you don't know how many there are - because it's p2p).