Reaction

Interactions are more fun when you can express yourself! Let users react using emojis, stickers, or thumbs up to messages.

To maximize engagement on the content of your application, you can use reactions on messages, posts, or comments. The reaction is similar to the Facebook Like. While a user can add many reactions to a model, it can only add each reaction one time only.

Reading the reactions

Each model which can be reacted upon will carry a set of properties useful to display its reactions. You will find:

1. reactions: an object containing the name of the reactions as key, and their count as value (ex: { like: 1, love: 1 })

2. reactionCount: the sum of all the counts for all the reactions

3. myReactions: an array containing the current's users reactions

const liveObject = messageRepo.findById('exampleMessageId')
const messageModel = liveObject.model

console.log(messageModel.reactions) // { like: 1, love: 4, care: 3 }
console.log(messageModel.reactionCount) // 8
console.log(messageModel.myReactions) // ['love', 'care']

Reacting on a model

First, simply import the ReactorRepository and pass in the message you want to react upon.

import { ReactorRepository } from 'eko-sdk';
const reactorRepo = new ReactorRepository(messageModel);

Then call for addReaction() and pass along the identifier for your reaction.

reactorRepo.addReaction('love')

Removing a reaction

Just as you did for adding a reaction, you can call removeReaction() to remove a reaction.

reactorRepo.removeReaction('love')

Server feedback

Both addReaction() and removeReaction() methods return a Promise resolving a boolean acknowledging the server's successful response. If necessary, you can use await to receive the result of those operations.

const didReact = await reactorRepo.addReaction('love')
console.log(didReact) // true
const didUnreact = reactorRepo.removeReaction('love')
console.log(didUnreact) // true