Inserting HTML into a Snackbar message - reactjs

Question

So I'm forking off a sample Twilio video chat app (https://github.com/twilio/twilio-video-app-react). For the chat feature, Snackbar messages are employed. Which works fine. But I want to allow the user to send a message starting with http, so that the message will then be sent as a hyperlink URL.
The ChatInput component works fine for displaying this message as a hyperlink URL for the local user (i.e. - the sender). But the DataTrack event handler for the remote users doesn't display the message as a hyperlink. Just displays the literal text.
Here is the ChatInput.tsx, where any message starting with http will show up correctly for the local user.
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Button, FormControl, TextField } from '#material-ui/core';
import { useSnackbar } from 'notistack';
import useVideoContext from '../../../hooks/useVideoContext/useVideoContext';
export default function ChatInput() {
const [message, setMessage] = useState('');
const { room } = useVideoContext();
const { enqueueSnackbar } = useSnackbar();
const handleChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => setMessage(e.target.value);
const handleSubmit = (event: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => {
event.preventDefault();
if (message) {
// Get the LocalDataTrack that we published to the room.
const [localDataTrackPublication] = [...room.localParticipant.dataTracks.values()];
// Construct a message to send
const fullMessage = `${room.localParticipant.identity} says: ${message}`;
if (message.startsWith('http')) {
// Send the message
localDataTrackPublication.track.send(`${message}`);
// Render the message locally so the local participant can see that their message was sent.
enqueueSnackbar(<a href={message}>{message}</a>);
} else {
// Send the full message
localDataTrackPublication.track.send(fullMessage);
// Render the full message locally so the local participant can see that their message was sent.
enqueueSnackbar(fullMessage);
}
//Reset the text field
setMessage('');
}
};
return (
<form autoComplete="off" style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center' }} onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
<FormControl>
<label htmlFor="chat-snack-input" style={{ color: 'black' }}>
Say something:
</label>
<TextField value={message} autoFocus={true} onChange={handleChange} id="chat-snack-input" size="small" />
</FormControl>
<Button type="submit" color="primary" variant="contained" style={{ marginLeft: '0.8em' }}>
Send
</Button>
</form>
);
}
And here is the DataTrack.ts, which only displays the string literal for any remote user.
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { DataTrack as IDataTrack } from 'twilio-video';
import { useSnackbar } from 'notistack';
var stringToHTML = function (str) {
var parser = new DOMParser();
var doc = parser.parseFromString(str, 'text/html');
return doc.body;
};
export default function DataTrack({ track }: { track: IDataTrack }) {
const { enqueueSnackbar } = useSnackbar();
useEffect(() => {
const handleMessage = (message: string) => {
if (message.startsWith('http')) {
const newMessage = stringToHTML(message);
enqueueSnackbar(newMessage);
}
else {
enqueueSnackbar(message); }
};
track.on('message', handleMessage);
return () => {
track.off('message', handleMessage);
};
}, [track, enqueueSnackbar]);
return null; // This component does not return any HTML, so we will return 'null' instead.
}
Any suggestions as to how I can get the remote users to receive the same hyperlink URL that the sender sees?

Answer 1

TL;DR: the function stringToHTML is returnign a DOM element reference not a React element when passing the message to NotiStack, try wrapping it with a React element:
//const newMessage = stringToHTML(message);
enqueueSnackbar(<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html:message}} />);
NL;PR: And/Or I'm not sure why your are passing the message value to NotiStack differently in the two components:
if (message.startsWith('http')) {
//local user
enqueueSnackbar(<a href={message}>{message}</a>); //1)
//vs. remote user
const newMessage = stringToHTML(message);
enqueueSnackbar(newMessage); // should it be the same as 1)?

Answer 2

Appreciate the feedback. I was handling the message two different ways depending if a URL was being passed along or not. Actually the project author actually provided a clean solution. Installing the Linkify package allows just those string elements inferred to be HTML to be formatted as such.
Here is the reworked DataTrack.tsx contents. Works like a champ!
import React from 'react';
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { DataTrack as IDataTrack } from 'twilio-video';
import { useSnackbar } from 'notistack';
import Linkify from 'react-linkify';
export default function DataTrack({ track }: { track: IDataTrack }) {
const { enqueueSnackbar } = useSnackbar();
useEffect(() => {
const handleMessage = (message: string) =>
enqueueSnackbar(
<Linkify
componentDecorator={(decoratedHref, decoratedText, key) => (
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href={decoratedHref} key={key}>
{decoratedText}
</a>
)}
>
{message}
</Linkify>
);
track.on('message', handleMessage);
return () => {
track.off('message', handleMessage);
};
}, [track, enqueueSnackbar]);
return null; // This component does not return any HTML, so we will return 'null' instead.
}