Hi all, I’m trying to find a way to automatically set the initial channel when loading the page (use case is so that we can link directly to certain channels). I’m using the Channel and ChannelList components, with a stateful currentChannelUrl variable - it’s pretty much all the same as the sample…

Hi @kevinkasson , Looking at the code, it doesn’t look like there is a way to prevent it from firing. onChannelSelect is fired in a useEffect() when initially loaded and selects a channel based on the loaded channel list. Using a sandbox created by @Sravan_S , I was able to use a react hook that the…

Setting initial channel

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Jared March 25, 2022, 7:43pm 11

I was experiencing this problem and it ended up being related to passing a value for the queries prop to the ChannelList component.

I found the solution here: IncludeEmpty option is re-rendering the ChannelList - #9 by Jared

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