Can an atom's value be changed from a non-react environment?

Recently I came across the use case like a pure js file Realtime.service.js is making a connection with the WebSocket server and streaming realtime data to UI (need to feed multiple React’s components with a chunk of data coming from realtime WS).

Now if Recoil’s atom state can be changed directly from Realtime.service.js (which is not a React component but js service) with realtime steam then all the components connected with the relative atoms will be updated on realtime data streaming.

Is that a valid use case? Right now I’ve seen that Atom’s state only get/set default-value by React’s hook.

In redux it is possible, we can update the store from any js file (non-react env). and the react-redux bridge auto handles the changes to connected components. Now we’re moving from Redux to Recoil, we’re having this roadblock.

[ajoslin]

You could hack it

function MyCmp () {
  const setValue = window.setValue = useSetRecoilState(someState)
}

function somewhereElse () {
  window.setValue(123)
}

[drarmstr]

I’m hopeful that this API #380 could help with this use case.