Catalyst Redux

State management utilities for Redux.

⚠️ Definitely a WIP ⚠️

Operations

The simplest Operation is just an action type and a reducer:

import { createOperation } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
const increment = createOperation({
  actionType: 'INCREMENT',
  reducer: state => state + 1
});

You can customize the action creator if you want:

import { createOperation } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
const increment = Operation({
  actionType: 'INCREMENT',
  actionCreator: amount => ({ payload: { amount } }),
  reducer: (state, action) => state + action.payload.amount
});

Asynchronous Operations

Sometimes an Operation needs to handle some asynchronous logic (e.g. making a request to your API and then storing the response). This is almost as simple to write as a synchronous operation:

import { createAsyncOperation } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
const fetchArticles = createAsyncOperation({
  actionType: 'FETCH_ARTICLES',
  reducer: (state, action) => {
    switch (action.status) {
      case 'pending': {
        return {
          ...state,
          fetchStatus: 'pending'
        };
      }
 
      case 'success': {
        return {
          ...state,
          fetchStatus: 'success',
          articles: action.payload.data
        };
      }
 
      case 'error': {
        return {
          ...state,
          fetchStatus: 'error'
        };
      }
    }
 
    return state;
  },
  request: () => axios.get('/api/articles').then(({ data }) => data)
});

Modules

Operations can be composed into a Module. A Module contains the reducer, saga, action creators, and selectors for a specific "slice" of your application state.

Here's a counter Module with an initial state of 0:

import { createModule, createOperation } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
const Counter = createModule({
  initialState: 0,
  operations: {
    increment: createOperation({
      actionType: 'INCREMENT',
      reducer: state => state + 1
    }),
    decrement: createOperation({
      actionType: 'DECREMENT',
      reducer: state => state - 1
    })
  },
  selectors: {
    getState: state => state
  }
})('counter');

The created module has the following API:

Counter.reducer(state, action);
Counter.saga();
Counter.actions.increment();
Counter.actions.decrement();
Counter.selectors.getState(state);

Resource Modules

Resource modules consist of a predefined group of operations and selectors which allow you to interact with a JSON API.

Resource modules require information about the types of resources you want to interact with and how to construct requests for them:

import { ResourcesModule, Resource, relationships } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
class Post extends Resource {
  static type = 'posts';
  static relationships = {
    comments: relationships.hasMany('comments', {
      inverse: 'post'
    })
  };
}
 
class Comment extends Resource {
  static type = 'comments';
  static relationships = {
    post: relationships.hasOne('post', {
      inverse: 'comments'
    })
  };
}
 
const Resources = new ResourcesModule([Post, Comment]);

This would provide you with the following API for interacting with posts and comments:

Resources.findAllAction(resourceClass);
Resources.find(resourceClass, resourceID, options);
Resources.create(resourceClass, attributes, options);
Resources.update(resourceClass, resourceID, attributes, options);
Resources.destroy(resourceClass, resourceID);
 
Resources.getResources(resourceClass);
Resources.getResource(resourceClass, resourceID);
Resources.getResources(resourceClass);
Resources.getResourceStatus(resourceClass, resourceID);

In this case, the "resourceClass" argument could be either Post or Comment.

Request Options

The requests made and responses received by a resource module can be transformed by passing an options object to ResourcesModule:

import { ResourcesModule } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
const Resources = new ResourcesModule(
  [
    // Resource classes
  ],
  {
    transformRequest({ data, headers }) {
      headers = { ...headers, Authorization: 'Bearer 1234567890' };
 
      return { data, headers };
    },
    transformResponse(data) {
      return { ...data };
    }
  }
);

Actions

findAllAction(resourceClass: Class, ?options: Object)

Example:

Resources.findAllAction(Post, {
  filter: {
    authorId: 7
  },
  include: ['comments']
});

createAction(resourceClass: Class, attributes: Object, ?options: Object)

Example:

Resources.createAction(
  Comment,
  { content: 'First!' },
  {
    relationships: {
      post: { type: 'posts', id: '1' }
    }
  }
);

updateAction(resourceClass: Class, resourceID: number | string, attributes: Object, ?options: Object)

Example:

Resources.actions.update(
  Comment,
  6,
  { content: 'Something meaningful.' },
  {
    relationships: {
      post: { type: 'posts', id: '1' }
    }
  }
);

The connectResource HOC

This higher-order component allows you to easily build components which can both create new resources and update/destroy existing resources. The wrapped component (CommentForm in the following example), is passed these props by connectResource:

resource: Object | null

resourceStatus: string | null

onCreate: (attributes: Object, options?: Object) => void
Dispatches an action to create a resource using the passed attributes.

onUpdate: (attributes: Object, options?: Object) => void
Dispatches an action to update the resource using the passed attributes.

onDestroy: () => void
Dispatches an action to destroy the resource.

import { ResourcesModule, Resource, connectResource } from 'catalyst-redux';
import type { ResourceProvidedProps } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
class Comment extends Resource {
  static type = 'comments';
}
 
const Resources = new ResourcesModule([Comment]);
 
type Props = ResourceProvidedProps;
 
class CommentForm extends React.PureComponent<Props> {
  state = { content: '' };
 
  handleChange = event => {
    this.setState({ content: event.currentTarget.value });
  };
 
  handleSubmit = event => {
    event.preventDefault();
 
    this.props.onCreate({
      content: this.state.content
    });
  };
 
  render() {
    return (
      <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
        <textarea value={this.state.content} onChange={this.handleChange} />
 
        <button>Add Comment</button>
      </form>
    );
  }
}
 
const ConnectedCommentForm = connectResource(Resources, Comment)(CommentForm);

The connectResourceForm HOC

This HOC makes it easy to store temporary state for a resource's attributes before the resource is created/updated. The wrapped component is passed these props in addition to the ones provided by connectResource:

onSave: (eventOrOptions?: SyntheticEvent<*> | Object = {}, options?: Object = {}) => void
Calls either onSave or onCreate depending on the state of the resource. Optionally accepts an event as the first argument and calls preventDefault (which allows it to be used directly in a form's onSubmit).

onReset: () => void
Clears the stored attribute values, effectively resetting the form.

inputProps: (key: string) => { value: string, onChange: (event: SyntheticInputEvent<*>) => void }
Given the name of an attribute, it returns an object with value and onChange props which can be spread onto an <input />, <select />, etc.

import { ResourcesModule, Resource, connectResourceForm } from 'catalyst-redux';
import type { ResourceFormProvidedProps } from 'catalyst-redux';
 
class Post extends Resource {
  static type = 'posts';
}
 
const Resources = new ResourcesModule([Post]);
 
type Props = ResourceFormProvidedProps;
 
const PostForm = ({ onSave, onReset, inputProps }: Props) => {
  return (
    <form onSubmit={onSave}>
      <label for="title">Title</label>
      <input id="title" type="text" {...inputProps('title')} />
 
      <label for="content">Content</label>
      <textarea id="content" {...inputProps('content')} />
 
      <button type="submit">Save</button>
      <button type="button" onClick={onReset}>
        Reset
      </button>
    </form>
  );
};
 
const ConnectedPostForm = connectResourceForm(Resources, Post)(PostForm);

The ConnectedPostForm component can now be used to either create a new post:

<ConnectedPostForm />

or to edit an existing one:

<ConnectedPostForm resourceID={4} />