useEmailQueryParam()
Parse an email from a URL.
This is helpful if you want to send a marketing email and include a query
param like ?email=meflxkpe.io
to pre-fill some input.
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { useRouter } from 'next/router';
/**
* If `paramName` exists in query string, then call `setEmail()` with the value
* and delete it from the URL.
*/
export default function useEmailQueryParam(
paramName: string,
setEmail: (email: string) => unknown
) {
const router = useRouter();
useEffect(() => {
if ('URLSearchParams' in window) {
const { search, pathname } = window.location;
const params = new URLSearchParams(search);
const email = params.get(paramName);
if (email) {
setEmail(email);
params.delete(paramName);
const newSearch = params.toString();
const newAsPath = pathname + (newSearch ? `?${newSearch}` : '');
const newPathname =
router.pathname + (newSearch ? `?${newSearch}` : '');
history.replaceState(
{ url: newPathname, as: newAsPath, options: { shallow: true } },
'',
newAsPath
);
}
}
}, [setEmail, router.pathname, paramName]);
}