fix: prevent Room re-renders from throwing an error

src/components/Room/Room.tsx

@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-import { useMemo } from 'react'
+import { useState } from 'react'
 import { useParams } from 'react-router-dom'
 import Button from '@mui/material/Button'
 import Typography from '@mui/material/Typography'
 
 import { usePeerRoom } from '../../hooks/usePeerRoom'
+import { PeerRoom } from '../../services/PeerRoom'
 
 enum PeerActions {
   MESSAGE = 'MESSAGE',
 }
 
-export function Room() {
+interface RoomProps {
-  const { roomId = '' } = useParams()
+  peerRoom: PeerRoom
+  roomId: string
+}
 
-  const { makeAction } = usePeerRoom({
+function Room({ peerRoom, roomId }: RoomProps) {
-    appId: `${window.location.origin}_${process.env.REACT_APP_NAME}`,
+  const { makeAction } = peerRoom
-    roomId,
-  })
 
-  const [sendMessage, receiveMessage] = useMemo(
+  const [[sendMessage, receiveMessage]] = useState(() =>
-    () => makeAction<string>(PeerActions.MESSAGE),
+    makeAction<string>(PeerActions.MESSAGE)
-    [makeAction]
   )
 
   receiveMessage(message => {
@@ -43,3 +43,20 @@ export function Room() {
     </div>
   )
 }
+
+function RoomLoader() {
+  const { roomId = '' } = useParams()
+
+  const peerRoom = usePeerRoom({
+    appId: `${process.env.REACT_APP_NAME}`,
+    roomId,
+  })
+
+  if (peerRoom) {
+    return <Room peerRoom={peerRoom} roomId={roomId} />
+  } else {
+    return <>Loading...</>
+  }
+}
+
+export { RoomLoader as Room }

src/hooks/usePeerRoom/usePeerRoom.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { useEffect, useMemo } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
 
-import { PeerRoom } from '../../services/PeerRoom'
+import { PeerRoom, getPeerRoom } from '../../services/PeerRoom'
 
 interface PeerRoomProps {
   appId: string
@@ -8,17 +8,19 @@ interface PeerRoomProps {
 }
 
 export function usePeerRoom({ appId, roomId }: PeerRoomProps) {
-  const peerRoom = useMemo(() => {
+  const [peerRoom, setPeerRoom] = useState<PeerRoom | null>(null)
-    const peerRoom = new PeerRoom({ appId }, roomId)
 
-    return peerRoom
+  useEffect(() => {
+    ;(async () => {
+      setPeerRoom(await getPeerRoom({ appId }, roomId))
+    })()
   }, [appId, roomId])
 
   useEffect(() => {
     return () => {
-      peerRoom.leaveRoom()
+      peerRoom?.leaveRoom()
     }
-  }, [appId, peerRoom, roomId])
+  }, [peerRoom])
 
   return peerRoom
 }

src/services/PeerRoom/PeerRoom.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { joinRoom, Room, RoomConfig } from 'trystero'
 
+import { sleep } from '../../utils'
+
 export class PeerRoom {
   private room: Room
 
@@ -20,3 +22,25 @@ export class PeerRoom {
     return this.room.makeAction<T>(namespace)
   }
 }
+
+// This abstraction is necessary because it takes some time for a PeerRoom to
+// be torn down, and there is no way to detect when that happens. If a new
+// PeerRoom is instantiated with the same config and roomId before the previous
+// one is torn down, an error is thrown. The workaround is to continually
+// trying to instantiate a PeerRoom until it succeeds.
+export const getPeerRoom = async (config: RoomConfig, roomId: string) => {
+  const timeout = 1000
+  const epoch = Date.now()
+
+  do {
+    if (Date.now() - epoch > timeout) {
+      throw new Error('Could not create PeerRoom')
+    }
+
+    try {
+      return new PeerRoom(config, roomId)
+    } catch (e) {}
+
+    await sleep(100)
+  } while (true)
+}

src/utils.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export const sleep = (milliseconds: number): Promise<void> =>
+  new Promise<void>(res => {
+    setTimeout(res, milliseconds)
+  })