MarsDB-React

Declarative data-binding for React based on MarsDB, inspired by Relay, Redux, Flux and Mithril.

• Declarative: Never again communicate with your data store using an imperative API. Simply declare your data requirements with flexible MarsDB cursors
• Colocation: Queries live next to the views that rely on them, so you can easily reason about your app.
• Mongo-like queries/mutations: Work with the data as always, MarsDB takes care of the rest.

Example

Basic concepts

MarsDB-React uses Relay-like concept of data reuirements declaration. Just make a component and create a data container below based on the component.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { createContainer, DataManagerContainer } from 'marsdb-react';
import Collection from 'marsdb';
 
const MessageModel = new Collection('messages');
 
class HelloWorld extends React.Component {
  handleClickAddMessage = () => {
    MessageModel.insert({ text: this.state.text });
    this.setState({ text: '' });
  };
 
  handleChangeText = (e) => {
    this.setState({ text: e.target.value });
  };
 
  handleClickMoreLimit = () => {
    const { limit } = this.props.variables;
    limit(10 + limit());
  };
 
  render() {
    const { messages, variables } = this.props;
    const { limit } = variables;
    return (
      <div>
        <div>
          <h3>Add a message</h3>
          <input
            placeholder="Message text"
            value={this.state.text}
            onChange={this.handleChangeText}
          />
          <button onClick={this.handleClickAddMessage}>Say "hello"</button>
        </div>
        <div>
          <h3>Messages (with limit: {limit()})</h3>
          <div><button onClick={this.handleClickMoreLimit}>Limit +10</button></div>
          {messages().map(m => (
            <p key={m()._id}>"Hello" with message: {m().text}!</p>
          ))}
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
HelloWorld = createContainer(HelloWorld, {
  initialVariables: {
    limit: 2
  },
  fragments: {
    messages: ({limit}) => MessageModel.find().limit(limit())
  }
});
 
ReactDOM.render(document.body, (
  <DataManagerContainer
    component={HelloWorld}
    renderLoading(() => <span>Loading...</span>)
  />
))

As you can see, data declaration uses the same fields, that Relay use. But it's plain javascript! There is some things, that should be noticed:

• Variables in fragment function and in a component, data from props in a component – all is a getter-setter property functions. By calling limit() it returns current value, by calling limit(10) it sets new one and returns 10.
• Each property have a version variable, that changed when new value is set. It can be used in shouldComponentUpdate
• As we noticed above, each data property is a getter-setter property function. To access a messages list you need to call messages() that returns current list of messages. Each message of the list is also a proprty function!
• Each change of the model automatically triggers re-rendering of the component with new data. No subsribers, no listeners, no special "mutation" logic. Just insert/update.
• Data container can be rendered by <DataManagerContainer> component. It resolves all data requests and show a component only when all data received and ready to show.
• To use MarsDB-React with React Router use MarsDB-React-Router
• For more complex example, see TodoMVC
• If you have any questions, please ask me by issue

TodoMVC

The repository comes with an implementation of TodoMVC. To try it out:

git clone https://github.com/c58/marsdb-react.git
cd marsdb-react/examples/todomvc && npm install
npm start

Then, just point your browser at http://localhost:3000.

Contributing

I’m waiting for your pull requests and issues. Don’t forget to execute gulp lint before requesting. Accepted only requests without errors.

License

See License