Achieve client-side routing the Redux way:
- Read location data from the store.
- Update the location by dispatching navigation actions.
- Let middleware handle the side-effect of history navigation.
Learn more: An Introduction to the Redux-First Routing Model
Ideology
This library wraps history
and provides a minimal, framework-agnostic base for accomplishing Redux-first routing. It does not provide the actual router component.
Instead, you can pair it with a compatible router to create a complete routing solution. If you're coming from React Router, you might compare this package to react-router-redux
.
Installation
Install the library from npm:
npm install --save redux-first-routing
Or, use the following script tag to access the latest UMD build on window.ReduxFirstRouting
:
Usage
Basic Usage
// Create the history objectconst history = // Add the reducer, which adds location state to the storeconst rootReducer = // Build the middleware, which intercepts navigation actions and calls the corresponding history methodconst middleware = // Create the storeconst store = // Start the history listener, which automatically dispatches actions to keep the store in sync with the history // Now you can read the location from the store!let currentLocation = storerouterpathname // You can also subscribe to changes in the location!let unsubscribe = store // And you can dispatch navigation actions from anywhere!store
State Shape
There are dozens of ways to design the state shape of the location data, and this project must by nature choose an opinionated design:
// URL: www.example.com/nested/path?with=query#and-hash router: pathname: '/nested/path/' search: '?with=query' queries: with: 'query' hash: '#and-hash' ... // other redux state
The query-string
package is used internally to parse the search
string into the queries
object.
Compatible Routers
For a router to work seamlessly with redux-first-routing
, it must not be tightly coupled to the browser history/navigation code. The following libraries meet that criteria by providing router components that focus solely on the routing and/or rendering part:
- Universal Router (framework-agnostic)
- Redux JSON Router (React)
For examples of usage, see Recipies. To add to this list, feel free to send a pull request.
Documentation
- API
- Recipies
Credits
The concept of "Redux-first routing" isn't particularly new — everything in this library has existed in one form or another across various other Redux routing libraries and packages. You may find a long list of similar projects (some of which may be classified as Redux-first routing libraries) here:
Notable influences:
Contributing
Contributions are welcome and are greatly appreciated! 🎉
Feel free to file an issue, start a discussion, or send a pull request.
License
MIT