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Fetch stream · Astro · React

Before you start

Start with an existing Astro · React app. Keep its renderer, routes and plugins. These files add one live view; Spinetab does not create your API.

Your endpoint supplies complete { "open": 12 } values: one JSON value per line from /api/queue/stream (NDJSON). Opening this request again must be safe.

The examples use same-origin URLs and declare anonymous: true: no token is supplied, although cookies still flow. For a separate API origin, use its URL and configure CORS or your application's proxy. For private data, add credentials and user scopes; never put a secret in these files.

1. Install

pnpm add spinetab

Keep your framework's existing dependencies. See compatible versions if upgrading an older app.

2. Configure your app

Merge this addition into your configuration; preserve existing plugins and options. Restart the dev server afterwards. The plugin bundles the worker and discovers the adapters imported below.

astro.config.mjs

import react from "@astrojs/react";
import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import { spinetab } from "spinetab/astro";

export default defineConfig({ integrations: [react(), spinetab()] });

3. Connect and render

Save these files together in src/components/recipe/.

reconcile: "latest" fits this full-state contract: the next complete event restores the displayed value after a gap. Use a refresh/merge policy for deltas or partial GraphQL results. Reconnecting alone does not reconstruct missed state.

src/components/recipe/live.ts

import { createSpinetab } from "spinetab";

export const spinetab = createSpinetab({ anonymous: true });

src/components/recipe/queue-types.ts

export type Queue = { open: number };
export type QueueView = { open?: number; problem?: string };

src/components/recipe/source.ts

import { stream } from "spinetab/stream";
import type { Queue, QueueView } from "./queue-types";

export const queueSource = stream<Queue>("/api/queue/stream", {
  repeatable: true,
});
export const selectQueue = (queue: Queue): QueueView => queue;

src/components/recipe/Recipe.tsx

import { bindClient } from "spinetab/react";
import { spinetab } from "./live";
import { queueSource, selectQueue } from "./source";

const { useLive } = bindClient(spinetab);

export default function Recipe() {
  const { data, error } = useLive(queueSource, {
    map: selectQueue,
    reconcile: "latest",
  });
  if (error || data?.problem)
    return <p role="alert">{error?.message ?? data?.problem}</p>;
  if (data?.open === undefined) return <p role="status">Loading queue…</p>;
  return (
    <p>
      <output>{data.open}</output> open
    </p>
  );
}

4. Mount the view

src/pages/queue.astro

---
import Recipe from "../components/recipe/Recipe";
---

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Live queue</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <Recipe client:load />
  </body>
</html>

Provider and consumer live in this one hydrated island. client:load starts it on page load; client:visible defers it until visible. Without hydration no subscription starts.

Check the result

Open /queue in two tabs of the same browser profile. Both should show advancing queue values. Matching subscriptions share upstream work when SharedWorker is available; fallback runs independently in each tab. Remove one view and the other should keep updating. Removing the last view releases its subscription; connection closure can follow the adapter's idle delay.

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