---
id: use-subscription
title: useSubscription
slug: /api-reference/use-subscription/
description: API reference for useSubscription, a React hook used to subscribe and unsubscribe from a subscription
keywords:
  - subscription
---

import DocsRating from '@site/src/core/DocsRating';
import {OssOnly, FbInternalOnly} from 'docusaurus-plugin-internaldocs-fb/internal';
import GraphQLSubscriptionConfig from '../types/GraphQLSubscriptionConfig.mdx';

## `useSubscription`

Hook used to subscribe and unsubscribe to a subscription.

```js
import {graphql, useSubscription} from 'react-relay';
import {useMemo} from 'react';

const subscription = graphql`
  subscription UserDataSubscription($input: InputData!) {
    # ...
  }
`;

function UserComponent({ id }) {
  // IMPORTANT: your config should be memoized.
  // Otherwise, useSubscription will re-render too frequently.
  const config = useMemo(() => ({
    variables: {id},
    subscription,
  }), [id, subscription]);

  useSubscription(config);

  return (/* ... */);
}
```

### Arguments

* `config`: a memoized config of type [`GraphQLSubscriptionConfig`](#type-graphqlsubscriptionconfigtsubscriptionpayload) passed to [`requestSubscription`](../request-subscription/)
* `requestSubscriptionFn`: `?<TSubscriptionPayload>(IEnvironment, GraphQLSubscriptionConfig<TSubscriptionPayload>) => Disposable`. An optional function with the same signature as [`requestSubscription`](../request-subscription/), which will be called in its stead. Defaults to `requestSubscription`.

<GraphQLSubscriptionConfig />

### Behavior

* This is only a thin wrapper around the `requestSubscription` API. It will:
  * Subscribe when the component is mounted with the given config
  * Unsubscribe when the component is unmounted
  * Unsubscribe and resubscribe with new values if the environment, config or `requestSubscriptionFn` changes.
* If you have the need to do something more complicated, such as imperatively requesting a subscription, please use the [`requestSubscription`](../request-subscription/) API directly.
* See the [GraphQL Subscriptions Guide](../../guided-tour/updating-data/graphql-subscriptions/) for a more detailed explanation of how to work with subscriptions.

<FbInternalOnly>

:::note
`useSubscription` doesn't automatically add `client_subscription_id`. You may need to provide an arbitrary `client_subscription_id` to `config.variables.input`
:::

</FbInternalOnly>

<DocsRating />