Channel is null when using useEchoModel for notifications

[thoresuenert]

Echo Version

2.1.3

Laravel Version

11.44.7

PHP Version

8.4

NPM Version

10.9.2

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

When using notifications with echo-react, the docs say:

import { useEchoModel } from "@laravel/echo-react";

 

const { channel } = useEchoModel('App.Models.User', userId);

 

channel().notification((notification) => {

    console.log(notification.type);

});

The function call channel() returns null until you wrap the call in useEffect.

Is that intentional?

Steps To Reproduce

laravel new project
php artisan broadcast:install

use reverb with echo-react.