mockstate

Mockstate is a centralized state management for Javascript applications. It provides more control of your state application with a simple and efficiently API and keep the state safe, when the user connection goes offline the state is saved in localStorage to be picked up when the connection back.

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Influences

Mockstate provides more control of your application state. It's envolve ideas of Redux and Flux, but explores all power of Promises, doing the work with async action easy.

Getting Started

Install

• Npm: npm install mockstate
• Bower: bower install mockstate
• CDN: https://unpkg.com/mockstate@0.0.6

Why you should be using Mockstate?

• More control of you application state.
• Safe State.
• It's pure flux, the flow is unidirectional.
• Tiny API.
• Actively maintained and being used in production.

The Gist

The application state is stored in an object tree inside a single store. The only way to change the state tree is to emit an action, that always return a Promise. You can receive the result of your action using .then after your dispatch call.

That's it!

import { setState, setActions, subscribe, dispatch } from 'mockstate';
 
/**
 * Set your store state in a single object.
 */
setState({
 count: 0
})
 
/**
 * Set your store state in a single object,
 * that always receive the store state as first argument.
 */
setActions({
  increment: ( state, n ) => {
      let count = state.count += n
      return count;
  }
});
 
/**
 * You can use subscribe() to update your UI in response to state changes.
 * `${this}` can be your UI component, where the subscribe handler will be applied.
 */
subscribe( this, ( data ) => {
  console.log(`Some action was called, Action name: ${data.action} Action Value: ${data.value}.`);
})
 
/**
 * The only way to mutate the internal state is to dispatch an action.
 * You can receive the response of your action and do something, or not.
 */
dispatch('increment', 1).then( data => {
    console.log(`The result of this action ${data.action} is: ${data.value}`);
})
//1
dispatch('increment', 1);
//2
dispatch('increment', 1);
//3

Simple and efficiently API.

Dispatch

• Trigger some action for do something. A Promise will be returned, that contain an Object with the
  keys action and value of your correspondent action response.

/**
 * @name dispatch
 * @description Trigger some action.
 * @param {string} actionName Action name
 * @param { arguments } Arguments You can pass the arguments after the actionName
 * @return {Promise} Return a Promise with an Object that contain the value 
 * of the action and the action name. 
 * {value, action} = data;
 */
 
// On your component
import {dispatch} from 'mockstate';
 
// You can receive the response of your action and do something, or not.
// If you whant, you can chaining the dispatch Promises.
dispatch('increment', 1)
  .then( data => {
    console.log(`The action will be called. The result is: ${data.value}`);
    return data.value;
  })
  .then( value => {
    console.log(`The response is: ${value}`);
  })

Actions

• Set your actions functions. Your actions always needs to return a value and receive the state as first argument.

/**
 * @name setActions
 * @description Set the actions functions.
 * @param {object} state The Store State as first argument
 * @param { any } args Other Arguments
 */
 
// actions/index.js
import {setActions} from 'mockstate';
 
setActions({
  // each action receive the state as first argument
  increment: (state, n) => {
      setTimeout(() => {
        let result = state.count += n;
        return result;
      }, 2000)
  }
});

Store State

• Set the application Store state

/**
 * @name setState
 * @description Set you application store state
 * @param {object} state Your application state data
 */
 
// store/index.js
import {setState} from 'mockstate';
 
setState({
  count: 1
});

Getting the Store State

• Get a state value of your store

/**
 * @name getState
 * @description Get the state value
 * @param {string} stateName The state name
 */
 
// store/index.js
import {getState} from 'mockstate';
 
let count = getState('count');

Middleware

• Set a middleware function, that will be triggered after the action calls.

/**
 * @name middleware
 * @description Get the state value
 * @param {Function} callback The callback that will be triggered and
 * receives the data of your action and the all state of your store application.
 */
 
// state/index.js
import { middleware } from 'mockstate';
 
middleware( (data, state) => {
    console.log('After action triggers:', data, ' and the Store State is: ', state);
})
 

Emit

• Tell to store that something are happend and the handler function will be triggerd.

/**
  * @name emit
  * @description Tell to store that something happend,
  * and the handler function will be called.
  * @return void
  **/
 
// state/index.js
import { emit } from 'mockstate';
 
emit();

Subscribe/Unsubscribe

• Subscribe some UI Component for trigger the handler function when some action are trigger.
• Unsubscribe when you don't wnat to trigger the handler function.

/**
 * @name subscribe
 * @description Subscribe some UI Component for trigger the handler function when some action calls.
 * @param { object } BindComponent The UI element that the handler function will be applied.
 * @param { handler } handler Your function that will be triggered when some state change.
 */
 
// components/app/index.js
import {subscribe, unsubscribe, getState} from 'mockstate';
  
  componentWillMount(){
     // when some state change, do something.
     subscribe(this, ( data ) => {
       this.setState({count: getState('count')})
     });
  }
  
    componentWillUnmount(){
      // remove this component for observe the changes on the state
      unsubscribe(this)
    }

License

MIT License.