🔥 react-firebase-subscribable 🔥

react-firebase-subscribable is a component library for handling Firebase Authentication and Firestore/RTDB subscriptions.

Table of Contents

Installation

Usage

• Context API:
  • Auth
    • Firebase Auth Provider
    • connectAuth
  • Firestore
    • Firestore Provider
    • connectFirestore
    • useInjected

Examples

Dependencies

Bugs, Pull Requests

Installation

This package is hosted on npm. To add it to your node project, use:

npm i -S react-firebase-subscribable
# with yarn
yarn add react-firebase-subscribable

A UMD build is also available for browsers via unpkg:

<script
  src="https://unpkg.com/react-firebase-subscribable@1.0.21/dist/react-firebase-subscribable.umd.js"
>
</script>

Note: you will need load the dependencies before this tag to use this library

Usage

Context API

react-firebase-subscribable exports Provider components and connect functions for using Auth/Firestore state via the context API. Auth state is separated from database subscriptions so the module exports separate Provider/connect functions for each:

Auth

Firebase Auth Provider

Props:

Name	Type	Required
firebaseAuth	Firebase Auth Instance	true
onAuthStateChanged	Function	false

onAuthStateChanged can be provided to inform external stores of changes to auth state without nesting them inside of Firebase Auth Provider, such as if you want to nest it in an existing redux store and dispatch actions to update the store on auth state change, so you can simply use one connect if you are already using redux.

Usage:

// in root component
import React from 'react'
import { FirebaseAuthProvider } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'
import App from 'components/App'
import firebase from 'firebase'

const AuthConnectedRoot = () => (
  <FirebaseAuthProvider firebaseAuth={firebase.auth()}>
    <App />
  </FirebaseAuthProvider>
)

export default AuthConnectedRoot

/**
 * with a redux store
 * Note: this component must be rendered as a child to Redux's
 * Provider component for this example to work.
 **/
import React from 'react'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { FirebaseAuthProvider } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'
import App from 'components/App'
import { onAuthStateChanged } from '../actions/auth'
import firebase from 'firebase'

const AuthConnectedRoot = ({ onAuthStateChanged }) => (
  <FirebaseAuthProvider
    firebaseAuth={firebase.auth()}
    onAuthStateChanged={onAuthStateChanged}
  >
    <App />
  </FirebaseAuthProvider>
)

const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
  onAuthStateChanged,
})

export default connect(
  null,
  mapDispatchToProps,
)(AuthConnectedRoot)

connectAuth

A function that accepts a function mapAuthStateToProps and returns a function that accepts a component.

mapAuthStateToProps

mapAuthStateToProps should accept the current user and return a props object to be applied to the wrapped component:

// in consumer components
import React from 'react'
import { connectAuth } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'

const CurrentUser = ({ user }) => (
  <div>
    {user ? user.uid : 'Not signed in'}
  </div>
)

const mapAuthStateToProps = user => ({
  user,
})

export default connectAuth(mapAuthStateToProps)(CurrentUser)

Firestore

Firestore Provider

Props:

Name	Type	Required
initialRefs	object (see below.)	false

type FirestoreProviderProps = {
  initialRefs: object<string, firestore.DocumentReference | firestore.CollectionReference | firestore.QueryReference>,
}

// in root component
import React from 'react'
import { FirestoreProvider } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'
import App from 'components/App'
import firebase from 'firebase'

const initialRefs = {
  allUsers: firebase.firestore().collection('all-users'),
}

const FirestoreConnectedRoot = () => (
  <FirestoreProvider initialRefs={initial}>
    <App />
  </FirestoreProvider>
)

export default FirestoreConnectedRoot

connectFirestore

A function that accepts a function mapSnapshotsToProps and a list of injectedRefs and returns a function that accepts a component.

mapSnapshotsToProps

mapSnapshotsToProps will receive the current store's corresponding snapshots as an argument:

import React from 'react'
import { connectFirestore } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'

const CurrentUserProfile = ({ userProfile }) => (
  <div>
    {userProfile
      ? <div>Welcome back, {userProfile.name}!</div>
      : <div>Sign in to view profile</div>
    }
  </div>
)

const mapSnapshotsToProps = ({ userProfile: { value, error } }) => ({
  userProfile: !error && value ? value.data() : null,
  profileError: error ? value : null,
})

export default connectFirestore(mapSnapshotsToProps)(CurrentUserProfile)

injectedRefs

injectedRefs can be passed into any firestore-connected component, and should have the form:

{
  [key: string]: firestore.Reference |
                 (props) => firestore.Reference | null,
}

If the provided ref is a function it will be called with the component's props

import React from 'react'
import { connectFirestore } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'

const CurrentUserProfile = ({ userProfile }) => (
  <div>
    {userProfile
      ? <div>Welcome back, {userProfile.name}!</div>
      : <div>Sign in to view profile</div>
    }
  </div>
)

// userProfile will be injected when this component connects
/**
 *  mapSnapshotsToProps can be null if you do not want the
 *  component to receive snapshot updates, but still want to inject
 *  refs.
 **/
const mapSnapshotsToProps = ({
  userProfile: { value: profileValue, error: profileError },
  allProfiles: { value: allProfiles, error: allProfilesError },
}) => ({
  userProfile: !profileError && profileValue ? profileValue.data() : null,
  otherProfiles: !allProfilesError && allProfiles.docs,
})

// ref can be a function, will be called with (props) as an arg
const injectedRefs = {
  userProfile: ({ user }) => user
    ? firebase.firestore().collection('user-profiles').doc(user.uid)
    : null,
  allProfiles: firebase.firestore().collection('user-profiles'),
}

// inject userProfileRef using key 'userProfile'
const withFirestore = connectFirestore(
  mapSnapshotsToProps,
  injectedRefs,
)

export default withFirestore(CurrentUserProfile)

useInjected

The useInjected hook can be used to manually connect a component to the Firestore Provider, and has the same API as connectFirestore:

import React from 'react'
import { useInjected } from 'react-firebase-subscribable'

const mapSnapshots = ({ userProfile: { value, error } }) => ({
  userProfile: !error && value ? value.data() : null,
  profileError: error ? value : null,
})

const CurrentUserProfile = ({ user }) => {
  const { userProfile } = useInjected(mapSnapshots, {
    userProfile: ({ user }) => user
      ? firebase.firestore().collection('user-profiles').doc(user.uid)
      : null,
    allProfiles: firebase.firestore().collection('user-profiles'),
  })
  return (
  <div>
    {userProfile
      ? <div>Welcome back, {userProfile.name}!</div>
      : <div>Sign in to view profile</div>
    }
  </div>
)

export default CurrentUserProfile

Examples

Provider/connect example

Bugs, Pull Requests

Pull requests, feature requests, bug reports welcome