react-compose-state

A helper function to attach state to stateless function components.

Background

Since React v0.14, stateless function components are supported, which allows you to write a component as a pure function. This is very handy with ES2015 and JSX. Here is an example.

const Hello = ({ name }) => (<div>Hello, {name}!</div>);

It is recommended to use stateless components as much as possible, and once you are used to it, you might want to avoid writing class-based components. Class-based components are powerful and you can mange lifecycles of components, but the state is one of what is required often, especially if using an external store (like Flux) is not an option.

This package provides an easy way to add state to statelss components. This avoids the use of this which is also known as thisless javascript.

Install

npm install react-compose-state --save

Usage

One liner:

import React from 'react';
import { composeWithState } from 'react-compose-state';
 
const Counter = composeWithState({ counter: 1 })(({ counter, setCounter }) => (
  <div>
    <span>Count: {counter}</span>
    <button onClick={() => setCounter(counter + 1)}>Click</button>
  </div>
));

With PropTypes:

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { composeWithState } from 'react-compose-state';
 
const Counter = ({ counter, setCounter }) => (
  <div>
    <span>Count: {counter}</span>
    <button onClick={() => setCounter(counter + 1)}>Click</button>
  </div>
));
 
Counter.propTypes = {
  counter: PropTypes.number.isRequired,
  setCounter: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
}
 
const initialState = { counter: 1 };
 
export default composeWithState(initialState)(Counter);

With options:

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { composeWithState } from 'react-compose-state';
 
const Counter = ({ counter, updateCounter }) => (
  <div>
    <span>Count: {counter}</span>
    <button onClick={() => updateCounter(counter + 1)}>Click</button>
  </div>
));
 
Counter.propTypes = {
  counter: PropTypes.number.isRequired,
  updateCounter: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
}
 
const initialState = { counter: 1 };
const options = {
  setters: {
    counter: 'updateCounter',
  },
};
 
export default composeWithState(initialState, options)(Counter);

Example

The example folder contains a working example. You can run it with

PORT=8080 npm run example

and open http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.