redux-render-prop

Redux with render props. Alternative to the connect() higher order component.

Read an introductory blog post here.

Very TypeScript friendly. It heavily leverages type inference to avoid manual typing of props.

Install

For react-redux 6.x

npm install redux-render-prop react-redux@6 # has peer dep of react-redux 6.x 

For react-redux 5.x you must use pre 0.7 versions

npm install redux-render-prop@0.6 react-redux@5 # has peer dep of react-redux 5.x 

For Typescript you will need the types too

npm install @types/react-dom @types/react @types/react-redux

Usage

import {makeConnector} from "redux-render-prop";
import {bindActionCreators} from "redux";
 
// Define state as a single type
interface State {
    counters: {
        [name: string]: {count: number};
    };
}
 
// Define some actions creators
const ActionCreators = {
    incrementByName: (name: string) => {
        return {type: "INC", name};
    },
};
 
// Create render prop component creator with app specific types.
// There is usually only one of these per app
const createAppConnect = makeConnector({
    // Component creators infer the state type from here.
    //
    // It is possible to return only part of the state here
    // which can be handy if you have a large app and want multiple
    // more specific component creators.
    //
    // You can also return here something other than the state
    // itself. For example you could wrap it with selector helpers.
    prepareState: (state: State) => state,
 
    // Actions are prepared similarly.
    prepareActions: dispatch => bindActionCreators(ActionCreators, dispatch),
});
 
// Create render prop component for counters.
const CounterConnect = createAppConnect({
    // State type is infered from the prepareState return value
    mapState: (state, ownProps: {name: string}) => ({
        count: state.counters[ownProps.name].count,
    }),
 
    // Actions type is infered from the prepareActions and
    // ownProps type is from the mapState ownProps
    mapActions: (actions, ownProps) => ({
        inc() {
            actions.incrementByName(ownProps.name);
        },
    }),
});
 
// Must be wrapped with <Provider store={store} />
const App = () => (
    <div>
        <CounterConnect
            // required by the ownProps type
            name="foo"
        >
            {(data, actions) => (
                // Fully typed data and actions
                <button onClick={actions.inc}>{data.count}</button>
            )}
        </CounterConnect>
    </div>
);

Flattening render props

If you find yourself nesting too much you can flatten the render callbacks type safely with the MappedState, MappedActions and MappedStateAndActions type helpers like so:

import {MappedState, MappedActions} from "redux-render-prop";
 
class MyComponent {
    renderCounter(
        data: MappedState<typeof CounterConnect>,
        actions: MappedActions<typeof CounterConnect>,
    ) {
        return <button onClick={actions.inc}>{data.count}</button>;
    }
 
    render() {
        return <CounterConnect name="foo">{this.renderCounter}</CounterConnect>;
    }
}

You can also use it to pass the props to class components if you need to access the mapped state or actions from lifecycle methods.

class ClassComponent extends React.Component<
    MappedStateAndActions<typeof CounterConnect>
> {
    componentDidMount() {
        // do something with this.props.count
    }
 
    render() {
        return <div>{this.props.count}</div>;
    }
}
 
export default () => (
    <CounterConnect name="wrapped">
        {data => <ClassComponent {...data} />}
    </CounterConnect>
);

Memoizing

For advanced high performance you may use memoizeMapState() to create memoized selectors on component mount.

const FooConnect = createComponent({
    // The initialState is the state at the time of the component
    // mount and it won't change during the component lifetime.
    // Same goes for the initialOwnProps.
    memoizeMapState: (initialState, initialOwnProps) => {
        // using the reselect module
        const selectFoosOnly = createSelector(
            (s: typeof initialState) => s.list,
            list =>
                list.map(obj => ({
                    foo: obj.foo,
                })),
        );
 
        // Return the actual mapState function
        return (state, ownProps) => {
            return {
                foos: selectFoosOnly(state),
            };
        };
    },
});

Examples

Here's a more complete example with immer-reducer:

https://github.com/epeli/typescript-redux-todoapp