Discussion on: Building a chat app with Socket.io and React 🚀

[Raccoon]

Thank you for the great article. I have one question. When someone is typing it shows the message but I can't figure out how to remove the is typing when the person isn't typing. Do you have an idea?

[AlexanderShpilka]

I just did this:

useEffect(() => {
    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
      if (typingStatus) {
        setTypingStatus('')
      }
    }, 3000)

    return () => {
      clearTimeout(timer)
    }
}, [typingStatus])