How Do I Hook Onto The Incoming Messaging Event When Using UIKit?

[Doug_Exner]

@diggtydo You can use the withSendBird() HOC as documented here https://sendbird.com/docs/uikit/v1/javascript/guides/group-channel#2-components to get access to the SDK directly.

This post gives a similar example to what you are trying to do:

Sendbird UIKit: subscribe for new messages for user?

Hi @Dmytro Apologies about the docs - we understand that docs are the most important part of any library - we are working on improving them. As a first step, we have made a bunch of examples on various use cases for UIKit. You can find them here I recommend you to follow the pattern from https://github.com/sendbird/SendBird-JavaScript/tree/master/uikit-samples#2-5-customizing-messageinput Using withSendBird HOC to access SDK to your custom component And from there, use the SDK instance and…

Given that you’ve already got this figure out the SDK, this should be pretty straightforward for you.

Let us know if that doesn’t take care of it for you.