redux-request-state

Redux utilities to deal with HTTP request states (loading, succeeded, failed).

• Installation
• Motivation
• API
• License

Installation

Install with npm:

npm install redux-request-state

Motivation

In a big application, you may end up writing lots of reducers to deal with the three states of a HTTP request - loading, succeeded and failed.
They will probably all look similar with the following:

import { createStore, combineReducers } from "redux";
 
// reducer, probably repeated quite a lot in a big application
export function accounts ( state = {}, action ) {
    switch ( action.type ) {
        case BEGIN_ACCOUNTS_REQUEST:
            return Object.assign( {}, state, {
                loading: true
            });
 
        case ACCOUNTS_REQUEST_SUCCESS:
            return Object.assign( {}, state, {
                loading: false,
                data: action.payload
            });
 
        case ACCOUNTS_REQUEST_FAILURE:
            return Object.assign( {}, state, {
                loading: false,
                error: action.payload
            });
 
        default:
            return state;
    }
}
 
const store = createStore( combineReducers({ accounts }) );

The intention of redux-request-state is to help you get rid of such common reducer, so the above becomes as simple as invoking a factory function:

import { createStore, combineReducers } from "redux";
import { createRequestReducer, createRequestSelectors } from "redux-request-state";
 
const store = createStore( combineReducers({
    accounts: createRequestReducer({
        begin: BEGIN_ACCOUNTS_REQUEST,
        success: ACCOUNTS_REQUEST_SUCCESS,
        failure: ACCOUNTS_REQUEST_FAILURE
    })
}));

API

createRequestReducer( actions )

Creates a reducer based on the action names given. Returns the reducer function.

Parameters:

• actions: object
  • begin: Action type that begins the request. Sets the request state to loading.
  • success: Action type that signals a request as succeeded. Sets the request state to not loading, and saves the payload as the data key of the state.
  • failure: Action type that signals a request as failed. Sets the request state to not loading, and saves the payload as the error key of the state.

createRequestSelectors( baseStateSelector, selectorNames )

DEPRECATED
This function is too verbose and doesn't blend well with ES6 modules. It may be removed in the near future.

Creates selector functions to query the state as stored by a reducer created with createRequestReducer. The returned object contains functions named after selectorNames, and they will query the corresponding piece of state.

Parameters:

• baseStateSelector: function
  Function to return the base location of the state.
• selectorNames: object
  • isLoading: name of the selector to query the loading state
  • getData: name of the selector to query the request result
  • getError: name of the selector to query the request error

selectors

It's an object which contains the following selector functions:

• isLoading: queries the loading state
• getData: queries the request result
• getError: queries the request error

They all work by returning the corresponding key in the given state object.
If given a function, it will be used to select the base state where the reducer data lies.

These selectors are available also from redux-request-state/selectors.

import { getData } from "redux-request-state/selectors";
 
const data = getData( state.accounts );
 
// Same as above
const data = getData( state => state.accounts )( state );
 
// Function composition!
const accountsNumber = compose( state => state.accounts, getData, accounts => accounts.length );
 
// Perhaps you like reselect? https://github.com/reactjs/reselect
const baseAccountsSelector = state => state.accounts;
const listAccounts = createSelector( baseAccountsSelector, getData );
const accountsNumber = createSelector( listAccounts, accounts => accounts.length );

License

MIT