Nexus Flux REST

Nexus Flux for REST backends. Stores are exposed by HTTP GET, and Actions are exposed by HTTP POST.

This package implements flux over the wire without the real-time websocket automatic updates.

If you want a more complex stack but automatic updates, you should check out nexus-flux-socket.io.

If you want to use Nexus Flux (including Nexus Flux REST) in a React app, you should also check out react-nexus.

Example

Backend code (run by a Node server in our datacenter):

import RESTServer from 'nexus-flux-rest/server';
 
// We define the behaviour of the server-side single source of truth
class MyServer extends RESTServer {
  constructor() {
    super({ port: 8080, salt: '--INSERT UNIQUE SALT--' });
    this.stores = {
      '/counters': new Remutable({
        visits: 0,
        clicks: 0,
        mouseenter: 0,
        mouseleave: 0,
      }),
    };
  }
  serveStore({ path }) {
    return Promise.try(() => {
      if(!_.isString(path)) {
        throw createError(400, 'Path should be a string.');
      }
      if(this.stores[path] === void 0) {
        throw createError(404, 'No such store.');
      }
      return this.stores[path].toJSON();
    });
  }
 
  dispatchAction(path, params) {
    return Promise.try(() => {
      if(path === '/increaseCounter') {
        const { target } = params;
        if(target === 'visits' ||
          target === 'clicks' ||
          target === 'mouseenter' ||
          target === 'mouseleave') {
          this.dispatchUpdate('/counters',
            this.stores['/counters']
              .set(target, this.stores['/counters'].get(target) + 1)
              .commit()
          );
        }
      }
    });
  }
}

Front-end code (run by either client browser or a Node server for server-side rendering):

import { root, component } from 'react-nexus';

// Root component
@root(({ data }) => ({
   remote: new RESTClient('https://mydomain.com:8080/'),
}))
class MyRoot extends React.Component { ... }

// Regular component
@component(({ target }) => ({
  counter: [`remote://counters`, { [target]: 0 }],
}))
@transform(({ counter, target }) => ({
  counter: counter.get(target)
}))
class Counter extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {
    target: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
    counter: React.PropTypes.number.isRequired,
  };

  render() {
    const { props } = this;
    return <span>{target}: {counter}</span>;
  }
}

@component()
class Button extends React.Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.increaseCounter('visits')();
  }

  increaseCounter(target) {
    return (e) => {
      if(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
      }
      this.props.nexus.dispatchAction('/increaseCounter', { target: target });
    };
  }

  render() {
    return <button
      onClick={this.increaseCounter('clicks')}
      onMouseEnter={this.increaseCounter('mouseenter')}
      onMouseLeave={this.increaseCounter('mouseleave')}
    >Click me!</button>;
  }
}

License

MIT Elie Rotenberg <[e-mail]>