Hi all!. Not sure if anyone has done this before, but I’m trying to consume a `Flow<State>` fr...

# multiplatform

[xxfast]

Hi all!. Not sure if anyone has done this before, but I’m trying to consume a Flow<State> from a shared ViewModel, in a Typescript react app (not using kotlin react wrappers). This is how that looks like

// View.tsx
export function View() {
    const viewModel = new JsViewModel()
    const [state, setState] = useState(viewModel.initialState)

    useEffect(() => {
        viewModel.subscribe((state) => { setState(state) })
    })
    
    return ( 
        <p>{state.value}</p>
    )
}

// ViewModel.kt
@JsExport
class JsViewModel {
  ...
  private val viewModel: ViewModel by viewModel()

  fun subscribe(
    onChange: (state: State) -> Unit,
  ) {
    viewModel.launch {
      viewModel.states.collect { state -> onChange(state) }
    }
  }
}

This pretty much works, but there’s a collect launched, which is technically not managed. Is there a better way to hookup the kotlin flow with the react hook?

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Did you look at the KMM Production Sample? They are using wrappers:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kmm-production-sample/blob/master/shared/src/jsMain/kotlin/com/github/jetbrains/rssreader/app/RssReaderJSViewModel.kt

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I guess if you collect through the lifetime of your application you can leave it unmanaged. However if you want to collect different things on different screens, you definitely need a mechanism to cancel.

[xxfast]

sorry for the late reply. I’m looking for a solution that doesn’t use wrappers

[xxfast]

also, i found out that we can technically do some clean up in componentWillUnmount / useEffect.cleanup hook. Thats the only way i found out so far.