react-pubsub-via-radio.js

Some mixins and utilities to make radio.js publish/subscribe work smoothly with react.js

radio

This library uses radio.js for publish/subscribe. You require it like this:

var radio = require("react-pubsub-via-radio.js/radio");

Then just look at their documentation to see how to use it.

RadioMixin

This mixin allows your components to listen to radio events. It will make sure the listeners are subscribed on mount and unsubscribed on unmount.

var RadioMixin = require("react-pubsub-via-radio.js/RadioMixin");
...
... React.createClass({
  mixins: [RadioMixin],
  ...
  Radio_setup: function(){
    return {
      "Some_Radio_Event": function(a, b, c){
        //now you can handle the event
        //"this" is bound to the component so you can use
        //this.setState(...) etc...
      }
    };
  },
  ...
  render: function(){
    ...
  }
});
...
radio("Some_Radio_Event").broadcast(1, 2, 3);

RadioService

Use this when you want to represent some asynchronous service. This will subscribe to a channel then broadcast messages to notify others when it's done.

var RadioService = require("react-pubsub-via-radio.js/service");
 
RadioService("Some_service", function(data, callback){
 
  //do some async work i.e. ajax
 
  //when you are done just call the callback
  //i.e.  callback(error, data);
 
}, function(data){
  //You can define a function that returns a "key"
  //that is unique to the action taking place
  //This way you wont have 5 of the same ajax call
  //all happening at once.
  //The key should be a number or string
 
  return data.id;//in this example we are returning data.id
                 //which ensures Some_service wont have
                 //concurrent calls all for the same id
 
  //If you don't define this it will default to
  // return JSON.stringify(data);
});

Here's a high level view of what's going on under the hood:

//someone asks the service to do something
radio("Some_service").broadcast({id: 123, other: "data" ...});
...
...Now inside the RadioService...
//the service picks it up and broadcasts back
radio("Some_service_waiting").broadcast(123);
//The service does your async work
...
//Then when you callback(null, data)
radio("Some_service_succeeded").broadcast(123, data);
//Or if you callback(error)
radio("Some_service_failed").broadcast(123, error);

RadioServiceMixin

This mixin makes working with RadioService easier. It will setup this.state.<service name> so you can observe the state of the service i.e. waiting, the data, or the error message. All you have to do is setup which services you subscribe to and the "key" for the instance of the service you are listening to.

var RadioServiceMixin = require("react-pubsub-via-radio.js/RadioServiceMixin");
...
... React.createClass({
  mixins: [RadioServiceMixin],
  ...
  RadioService_setup: function(){
    return {
      "Some_service": {
        key: function(){
          //you must define this function to declare
          //which "key" of the service calls you
          //care about.
          return this.props.id;
        },
        on: {//optionally you can declare on event handlers
          waiting: function(){},
          succeeded: function(data){},
          failed: function(error){}
        }
      }
    };
  },
  ...
  RadioService_Radio_setup: function(){
    //same as the Radio_setup method in RadioMixin
  },
  ...
  render: function(){
    var s = this.state.Some_service;
    //this will contain the following properties
    // s.waiting - true/false
    // s.data    - null or the data returned by the service on success
    // s.error   - null or the error message returned by the service on failure
 
    ...
  }
});

this.RadioService_callService(service, params)

This is a convenience function for calling a service you want to then listen to.

  ...
  RadioService_setup: function(){
    return {
      "Some_service": {
        key: "callService"
      }
    };
  },
  ...
  someMethod: function(){
    ...
    this.RadioService_callService("Some_service", params)
  }
  ...

Under the hood this will json stringify params and use that as the key.

Example

$ git clone https://github.com/espeakers/react-pubsub-via-radio.js.git
$ cd react-pubsub-via-radio.js/
$ npm i
$ npm start

Then it will tell you which port it's hosted on so you can open it in your browser.

The code for this is in the "example" directory.

Installing

Install using npm

npm install --save react-pubsub-via-radio.js

FYI

This project follows semantic versioning for releases.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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