Redux Ask

Remove boilerplate around requests... just ask!

Redux Ask is a Redux library that simplifies requests and removes the boilerplate. There's no need to create new state or flags for every request anymore!

Requirements

• React
• Redux
• Thunk Middleware
• Fetch

Installation

yarn add redux-ask

Usage

Setup your Request reducer

Pass the provided reducer to the store under the requests key...

import { createStore, combineReducers } from 'redux';
import requestReducer from 'redux-ask';

const reducers = combineReducers({
	requests: requestReducer,
});

const store = createStore(reducers);

Create your Request

Before you can send requests, you'll need to use the provided createRequest helper to define a request...

import { createRequest } from 'redux-ask';

export const createUser = createRequest(user => ({
	method: 'POST',
	url: '/api/users',
	body: user,
}));

To handle the response, use the onSuccess and onFailure thunk handlers. You can use this opportunity to normalize entities, pass entities to your state, or notify users of errors...

import { createRequest } from 'redux-ask';
import { receiveUser } from './user-actions';

export const createUser = createRequest(user => ({
	method: 'POST',
	url: '/api/users',
	body: user,
	onSuccess: (response) => dispatch => {
		const newUser = response.result;
		dispatch(receiveUser(newUser));
	},
	onFailure: () => dispatch => {
		dispatch(displayNotification('There was an error creating a user'));
	},
}));

If you want to configure your request, use the options parameter. This will be passed as the fetch init parameter (see documentation).

import { createRequest } from 'redux-ask';

export const createUser = createRequest(user => ({
	method: 'POST',
	url: '/api/users',
	body: user,
	options: {
		headers: new Headers({
	      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	      'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
	    }),
		credentials: 'include',
	},
}));

See it in action!

In order to send the request, you'll need to wrap the created requests in dispatch and pass a UNIQUE request key...

import React from 'react';
import { connect } from 'redux-actions';
import { createUser } from './user-requests';

const CreateUserButton = ({ createUser, user }) => {
	return (
		<button onClick={() => createUser(user)}>
			Create User
		</button>
	)
}

const UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY = 'REQUEST_KEY';

const mapDispatchToProps = {
	createUser: createUser(UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY),
};

export default connect(null, mapDispatchToProps)(CreateUserButton);

If you would like to check the status of your request, use our selectors with the same UNIQUE request key...

import { selectors } from 'redux-ask';

// UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY === 'REQUEST_KEY';

const mapStateToProps = state => {
	return {
		isNotStarted: selectors.isNotStartedSelector(UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY)(state),
		isPending: selectors.isPendingSelector(UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY)(state),
		isSuccessful: selectors.isSuccessfulSelector(UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY)(state),
		isFailed: selectors.isFailedSelector(UNIQUE_REQUEST_KEY)(state),
	};
}

BOOM!

Global Configuration

Most Apps use common configuration for all requests made. Redux Ask allows you to set a global configuration that will be used for all requests.

To set the global configuration, use the provided setRequestConfig action...

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { actions } from 'redux-ask';

class App extends Component {
  componentWillMount() {
    this.props.setRequestConfig({
      options: { ... },
      onSuccess: () => dispatch => { ... },
      onFailure: () => dispatch => { ... },
      onUnauthenticated: () => dispatch => { ... },
    });
  }
}

const mapDispatchToProps = {
   setRequestConfig: actions.setRequestConfig,
};

Make sure to set the Global Configuration before any requests are made!

API

createRequest

createRequest(requestConfigCreator:Func) Creates a request that can be dispatched when given a Request Key.

Actions

setRequestConfig(config:Object) Sets the global configuration for all requests.

Selectors

statusSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Gets the status of a request.

isNotStartedSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the request has been started or not.

isPendingSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the request is currently pending.

isSuccessfulSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the request is finished and successful.

isFailedSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the request is finished and failed.

allStatusSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Gets all of the request status in an object. This is a nice helper if you are checking all status.

responseSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the response of the request if finished and successful.

errorSelector(requestKey:String)(state:Object) Returns if the response of the request if finished and failed.

Examples

We have a few examples under our /examples directory. To try them out, simply run the following commands. cd examples/<example_directory> yarn yarn start

A browser should open up where you can interact with the example!

Issues?

Please report any issues! I will glady accept them at our issues page.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/TaeKimJR/redux-ask/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Meta

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Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.