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use-sound. A React Hook for playing sound effects

github.com/joshwcomeau/use-sound

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Updates

June 2025
  • Fix link to Storybook
February 2025
  • Release —v5.0.0
  • v5.0.0
  • Stop updating playbackRate when using sprites, to prevent a weird crash
  • v4.0.4
  • Update and disable Husky
  • Update dependencies
  • wip
June 2024
  • Bump version
  • Clarify TS stuff in README
  • Bump version
  • Fix spelling of "completely." (#129)
  • export type from the exports (#136)
  • Update README
August 2021
  • Add note about async sound paths
July 2021
  • v4.0.1
  • Tweak PR87
  • Fix missing Howl namespace on mount (#87)
June 2021
  • Remove misleading example from RREADME
  • Release —v4.0
  • v4.0
  • Improve performance by ditching 'isPlaying'