Medplum React Hooks Library

The Medplum React Hooks Library provides non-UI React features for your application.

Most users will want the full Medplum React Component Library, @medplum/react. However, that library has peer dependencies on Mantine, which may not be desired.

Key Features

- useMedplum - handles shared global instance of MedplumClient
- useResource - reads a resource by ID or reference with intelligent caching
- useSearch - performs a FHIR search with intelligent state management
- useSubscription - subscribes to a FHIR search criteria and calls a given callback upon receiving a relevant notification

Installation

Add as a dependency:

``
npm install @medplum/react-hooks
`

Note the following peer dependencies:

- @medplum/core
- react
- react-dom

Setup

`tsx
import { MedplumClient } from '@medplum/core';
import { MedplumProvider } from '@medplum/react';

const medplum = new MedplumClient();

export function App() {
return (





);
}
`

For more details on how to setup MedplumClient, refer to the docs for medplum.

useMedplum

`tsx
import { useMedplum } from '@medplum/react-hooks';

export function MyComponent() {
const medplum = useMedplum();
return

;
}
`

useMedplumContext

useMedplumContext can be used to access the MedplumContext provided by the MedplumProvider directly. The MedplumContext has the following interface:

`ts
interface MedplumContext {
medplum: MedplumClient;
navigate: MedplumNavigateFunction;
profile?: ProfileResource;
loading: boolean;
}
`

$3

You can use the loading property from useMedplumContext() to know when MedplumClient has finished initialization successfully. loading is updated asynchronously so it will usually start as false and change to true once the client has finished its initialization.

`tsx
function MyComponent(): JSX.Element {
const { loading } = useMedplumContext();
return loading ? :

;
}
`

useSubscription

useSubscription creates an in-memory Subscription resource with the given criteria on the Medplum server and calls the given callback when an event notification is triggered by a resource interaction over a WebSocket connection.

Subscriptions created with this hook are lightweight, share a single WebSocket connection, and are automatically untracked and cleaned up when the containing component is no longer mounted.

`tsx
function MyComponent(): JSX.Element {
const [notificationCount, setNotificationCount] = useState(0);

useSubscription('Communication?sender=Practitioner/abc-123&recipient=Practitioner/me-456', (bundle: Bundle) => {
console.log('Received a message from Practitioner/abc-123!');
handleNotificationBundle(bundle); // Do something with the bundle
setNotificationCount((s) => s + 1);
});

return

;
}
`

See also: useSubscription docs

$3

Usage within Expo / React Native` has some special considerations. See: @medplum/expo-polyfills README

About Medplum

Medplum is a healthcare platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality compliant applications. Medplum includes a FHIR server, React component library, and developer app.

License

Apache 2.0. Copyright © Medplum 2025