loti-request

A new component to make declarative request with react

ℹ️ Since version v0.4.0 loti-request use react hooks, so react >= 16.8.0 is required

️️ℹ️ After a few months using this lib on projects I didn't need to make breaking change since v0.2.0 so the api shouldn't change a lot in the future.

In version v0.4.0 MultiFetch component is removed, the goal of this component was to avoid nested Fetch components to get several ressources in a component. Thanks to react hooks, we haven't anymore this problem so MultiFetch become useless.

Install

yarn add loti-request
 
# or with npm 
 
npm install --save loti-request

Motivation

After using Apollo client, I find amazing to get server data declaratively. The goal of this library is to give a similar way to make http request on REST api. Even if there are other librairies doing that I want to bring some new ideas about api and some features like :

• abort request on unmount
• download progress status

Plan for futur

• option to select fetch policy (use cache or not)
• create hooks for next version of react
• add upload progress
• possibility to use custom cache
• improve MultiFetch component to make possible have requests with different response types

Basic examples

fetch one ressource

import { useFetch } from 'loti-request';
 
...
 
const MyComponent = () => {
  const { status, data } = useFetch({ url: 'http://localhost:3000/posts/1' });
 
  switch (status) {
    case 'NOT_SEND':
    case 'LOADING':
      return 'Loading request';
    case 'FAILED':
      return 'Request failed';
    case 'SUCCESS':
      return <div>Request SUCCESS 🎉 {data.title}</div>;
  }
}

or with render prop

import { Fetch } from 'loti-request';
 
...
 
<Fetch
  url={`http://localhost:3000/posts/1`}
>
  {({ status, data }) => {
    switch (status) {
      case 'NOT_SEND':
      case 'LOADING':
        return 'Loading request';
      case 'FAILED':
        return 'Request failed';
      case 'SUCCESS':
        return <div>Request SUCCESS 🎉 {data.title}</div>;
    }
  }}
</Fetch>

submit form

import { useRequest } from 'loti-request';
 
...
 
const MyComponent = () => {
  const { status, fetch } = useRequest({
    url: 'http://localhost:3000/posts',
    method: 'POST',
    onSuccess: () => console.log('Submit Succeed'),
    onError: () => console.log('Submit Failed'),
  });
 
  return (
    <Fragment>
      <button onClick={() => fetch()} disabled={status === 'LOADING'}>
        {status === 'LOADING' ? 'Loading' : 'Submit'}
      </button>
      {status === 'FAILED' && <span>Submit Failed</span>}
    </Fragment>
  );
}

or with render prop

import { Request } from 'loti-request';
 
...
 
<Request
  url="http://localhost:3000/posts"
  method="POST"
  onSuccess={() => console.log('Submit Succeed')}
  onError={() => console.log('Submit Failed')}
>
  {({ status, fetch }) => (
    <Fragment>
      <button onClick={() => fetch()} disabled={status === 'LOADING'}>
        {status === 'LOADING' ? 'Loading' : 'Submit'}
      </button>
      {status === 'FAILED' && <span>Submit Failed</span>}
    </Fragment>
  )}
</Request>

Documentation

RequestProvider

In some case you need to set similar headers in all your request for authentification for example. To avoid set those headers in props of each Fetch or Request component, you can wrap your app with RequestProvider. All Fetch and Request components will automatically use headers set in RequestProvider props. If you set headers props in Fetch or Request component, headers will be merge and similar keys will be overwrite.

Props :

headers object
headers to apply on each Fetch and Request components

Exemple :

import { RequestProvider } from 'loti-request'
 
...
 
<RequestProvider headers={{ authorization: 'abcdef' }}>
  <App />
</RequestProvider>

useFetch hook

This hook will automatically fetch data on mount and on props change. On unmount the request will be aborted if it's loading. If request has already be called, the response is get from cache instead of a http request.

Options :

• url string
  url to call.

• method (optional, default 'GET') 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE' | 'PATCH'
  Http method to use.

• headers (optional) object
  Http headers.

• query (optional) object
  Request url query.

• body (optional) object | string | FormData | Blob
  Request body.

• loaderDelay (optional) number
  delay (in milliseconds) before children param requestState.timeoutReached become true when request is loading. Can be usefull if you want display a loader after a delay.

• abortOnUnmount (optional, default true) boolean
  define if request should be abort when component is unmounted.
  if the value is false, onSuccess and onError callbacks will be called even if component is unmounted.

• withProgress (optional) boolean
  by activate this prop, you can access to download progress when request is loading (in requestState.loaded and requestState.total).

• responseType (optional, default 'json') 'arraybuffer' | 'blob' | 'document' | 'json' | 'text'
  the type of response expected.

• onSuccess (optional) function (data: T, params: RequestParams): void
  callback when request succeed, can be usefull to display a success message. T is a generic type depending on response type.
  params are request parameters used by fetch call, the list of parameters are listed in useFetch options documentation.

• onError (optional) function (response: any, statusCode: number, params: RequestParams): void
  callback when request failed, can be usefull to display an error message.
  params are request parameters used by fetch call, the list of parameters are listed in useFetch options documentation.

statusCode param was added in v0.5.0

• preventRequest (optional) boolean
  when true, no request will be send. It make possible to have conditional useFetch.
  for example we can add a condition to send request only when a search input has more than 3 characters.
  if preventRequest become true during loading, the loading request will be abort.

Returned values :

• status 'LOADING' | 'FAILED' | 'SUCCESS'
  request status.

• withLoader boolean
  true when request duration exceed loaderDelay prop

• progress { loaded: number, total: number }
  quantity of bytes downloaded and total to download (works only when withProgress is true)

• data T | undefined
  response data. T is a generic type depending on response type.

• headers object | undefined
  response headers.

• error any
  the error thrown by request if status isn't between 200 and 299 or a runtime error if response type doesn't correspond with http response.

• refetch function (): void
  a function to recall request. Can be usefull to retry a request or to reload data after a specific event.

Fetch component

If you prefer render prop over hooks, you can use the Fetch component. Props of this component are exactly the same as useFetch options. The expected children of Fetch is a function with values returned by useFetch hook.

useRequest hook

If you want to fetch data only after a click on a button or if you want to send form data after submit, you can use useRequest hook. No request is send on mount, request is send only after call of fetch function available in returned values (see in example above). If parent component is unmount during loading, the request will be aborted.

Options :

• url (optional) string
  url to call.

• method (optional default 'GET') 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE' | 'PATCH'
  Http method to use.

• headers (optional) object
  Http headers.

• query (optional) object
  Request url query.

• body (optional) object | string | FormData | Blob
  Request body.

• loaderDelay (optional) number
  delay before children param requestState.timeoutReached become true when request is loading. Can be usefull if you want display a loader after a delay.

• abortOnUnmount (optional, default true) boolean
  define if request should be abort when component is unmounted.
  if the value is false, onSuccess and onError callbacks will be called even if component is unmounted.

• withProgress (optional) boolean
  by activate this prop, you can access to download progress when request is loading (in requestState.loaded and requestState.total).

• responseType (optional, default to 'json') 'arraybuffer' | 'blob' | 'document' | 'json' | 'text'
  the type of response expected.

• onSuccess (optional) function (data: T, params: RequestParams): void
  callback when request succeed, can be usefull to display a success message. T is a generic type depending on response type.
  params are request parameters used by fetch call, the list of parameters are listed in fetch prop documentation.

• onError (optional) function (response: any, statusCode: number, params: RequestParams): void
  callback when request failed, can be usefull to display an error message.
  params are request parameters used by fetch call, the list of parameters are listed in fetch prop documentation.

statusCode param was added in v0.5.0

Returned values :

• fetch function (params: RequestParams): void the function which make http request. params are :

  • url (optional) string url to call.

  • method (optional) 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE' | 'PATCH' Http method to use.

  • headers (optional) object
    Http headers.

  • query (optional) object
    Request url query.

  • body (optional) object | string | FormData | Blob Request body.

params use in fetch are merge with options, so you can choose to set some params in hook options like method and set other params like body or query in fetch call.

• status 'NOT_SEND', 'LOADING' | 'FAILED' | 'SUCCESS'
  request status.

• withLoader boolean
  true when request duration exceed loaderDelay prop

• progress { loaded: number, total: number }
  quantity of bytes downloaded and total to download (works only when withProgress is true)

• data T | undefined
  response data. T is a generic type depending on response type.

• headers object | undefined
  response headers.

• error any
  the error thrown by request if status isn't between 200 and 299 or a runtime error if response type doesn't correspond with http response.

Request component

If you prefer render prop over hooks, you can use the Request component. Props of this component are exactly the same as useRequest options. The expected children of Request is a function with values returned by useRequest hook.

Cache functions

Sometimes we need to clean cache after creation or update some data. You can use removeCachedRequests and resetCache to remove some request from cache.

removeCachedRequests(url: string | RegExp) => void

remove requests which have an url matching with param.

Exemple :

import { removeCachedRequests } from 'loti-request'
 
// remove from cache all requests with a url finishing by `match/:id`
removeCachedRequests(/match\/\d*$/)

resetCache() => void

remove all requests from cache.

Exemple :

import { resetCache } from 'loti-request'
 
resetCache()