Receive last message and history

[mandymozart]

A key feature of ably is to receive the last message, but the react hook do not expose the history.
https://ably.com/docs/storage-history/storage#persist-last-message

[sync-by-unito]

➤ Automation for Jira commented:

The link to the corresponding Jira issue is https://ably.atlassian.net/browse/SDK-3892

[owenpearson]

Hey @mandymozart, thanks for reaching out!

You can use channel qualifier syntax to enable rewind on any channel, for example:

useChannel("[?rewind=100]your-channel-name")

If you need to use the channel history api you can do it by calling the history method on the channel instance returned by the hook, for example:

const [channel] = useChannel("your-channel-name");
const result = await channel.history(params);

Hope that clears things up, let me know if you have any further questions 🙂