router-redux

View framework agnostic react-router-redux :)

• Make your Stateless component based development flow easy. work with these libraries.
  • ✅React
  • ✅vidom
  • ✅snabbdom
  • Should also work with other vdom libraries(https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom)
• Adds pushState/popState based client-side routing to your project.
• Light weight(around 7K) but yet powerful router for Redux.

Demo: http://subuta.github.io/router-redux/

Installation

npm install router-redux --save

Example

First you need to pass routerReducer to your own reducer with routing key.

// In reducers/index.js
import {combineReducers} from 'redux';
import {routerReducer} from 'router-redux';
 
const rootReducer = combineReducers({
  routing: routerReducer // HERE
});
 
export default rootReducer;

Next you need to pass routerMiddleware to your createStore function. Then create and export router.

// In example/store.js
import createRouter, {routerMiddleware} from 'router-redux';
 
import reducer from './reducers/index.js';
const middlewares = [routerMiddleware];
const store = createStore(reducer, compose(
  applyMiddleware(...middlewares)
));
 
export const router = createRouter(store);

Then router enables you to pushState/popState based routing with redux.

// Get your exported router
import {router} from 'example/store.js';}
 
// Get router selector from router-redux
import {
  getRouteError
} from 'router-redux';
 
// Register onError first (if you need to catch routing error)
router.onError(({state, dispatch}) => {
  const routeError = getRouteError(state); // will extract error message from state.
  console.log('routeError.message = ', routeError.message);
  router.push('/error');
  // You can navigate user to error page or call any other redux action.
  dispatch(push('/error'));
});
 
// Called when user entered to path(/)
const onEnter = ({state}, cb) => {
  console.log('[top]loading ...', state);
  setTimeout(() => {
    // User's navigation action will blocked untill `cb` called.
    console.log('[top]timer fired');
    cb();
    // If you call `cb` with falsy value or Error object,
    // Router-redux will emit router's onError. and stop routing to path(/).
    // cb(new Error('[top]thrown error'));
  }, 1000);
};
 
// Called when user leave from path(/)
const onLeave = ({state}) => {
  console.log('[top]leave');
};
 
// Simple component to render.
const Top = () => {
  return <h1>top</h1>;
};
 
router.on('/', <Top onEnter={onEnter} onLeave={onLeave}/>)

see example/components for full example.

• /react -> example of React with JSX plugin.
• /vidom -> example of vidom plugin.
• /snabbdom -> example of snabbdom
• other files are common redux files(actions/reducers/store)

Documentation

• API idea came from react-router-redux thanks!

routerMiddleware

router-redux's middleware function for redux. You need to register it in your createStore function.

// In store.js
import createRouter, {routerMiddleware} from 'router-redux';
 
import reducer from './reducers/index.js';
const middlewares = [routerMiddleware];
const store = createStore(reducer, compose(
  applyMiddleware(...middlewares)
));
 
export const router = createRouter(store);

routerReducer()

router-redux's reducer function for redux. You need to register it in your combineReducers function.

// In reducers/index.js
import {combineReducers} from 'redux';
import {routerReducer} from 'router-redux';
 
const rootReducer = combineReducers({
  routing: routerReducer // here
});
 
export default rootReducer;

createRouter(store)

When you import router-redux, it gives you createRouter, You need to pass store to routerCreator, and it returns router for later use.

• export const router = createRouter(store)

Optionally you can pass history to createRouter like below.

import createHistory from 'history/createBrowserHistory'
const history = createHistory({basename: '/router-redux'});
export const router = createRouter(store, {history})

router

Will created by routerCreator above. router will handle these basic router operation.

• register your render/onEnter/onLeave function to the router using router.on(path, handler)
• navigate to other route using router.push and other history API based action replace/go/back/forward

router.on(path, handler)

• will register your render function to router.
• path can includes path parameter like (/foo/:id) and path can be '*'(wildcard) for default route.
• handler will accepts these value.
  • router.on(path, {render, onEnter, onLeave}) -> is formal syntax.
  • router.on(path, <Component onEnter={onEnter} onLeave={onLeave}/>) -> is jsx version of formal syntax
  • router.on(path, fn) -> will call passed function as render function.
• if current location matches passed path then router.on will call passed onEnter as initial route.

onEnter(handler)

• If you specify path parameter to path, router-redux will set route and params properties in route object(please refer selectors section).
• handler({state, dispatch}, [callback])
• Called when user navigated to path by pushState/popState or directly(by browser's url bar)
• Handler will block routing until callback function is called. (This is useful for Authentication or Load page related data via ajax)
• If you call callback function with falsy value(or Error object). router-redux will call router.onError and cancel navigation. (this is useful for handling un-authorized response or Server error)
• If you omit callback function then your onEnter result will not affect to further navigation(become asynchronous).
• If you navigate to /foo/1 from /, your state.routing in onEnter function will looks like below.

Key	Value
current	current route (/)
next	next route (/foo/1)
last	previous route

onLeave(handler)

• handler({state, dispatch})
• Called when user navigated from path by pushState/popState
• onLeave is called only user navigated from path after initialRouteResolved, it means you need to bind onEnter callback to use onLeave.
• If you navigate to /foo/1 from /, Your state.routing in onLeave function will looks like below.

Key	Value
current	current route (/)
next	null
last	previous route

router.onError(handler)

• handler({state, dispatch})
• Called when routeError occurred in router.onEnter
• You can get actual routeError using getRouteError selector.

router.render

• router.render()
• After register your routes using router.on(path, handler) you need to call router.render to render component based on current route(location).
• if not route matches current location then router will render * route as a default route.

import {
  inject,
  router
} from 'example/store.js'
 
import {
  getIsLoading
} from 'router-redux';
 
router.on('/', <Top onEnter={onEnter} onLeave={onLeave}/>)
 
const render = inject(({state}) => {
  if (getIsLoading(state)) {
    return <h1>loading ...</h1>
  }
  return router.render();
});

router.push(path)/router.replace(path)

• Create push/replace internal action with path.
• When you call push/replace action. router'redux will call pushState/replaceState of history API

router.go(page)/router.back()/router.forward()

• Create go/back/forward internal action.
• When you dispatch go/back/forward action. router'redux will call go/back/forward of history API

selectors

• Will extracts value from your state. You can use selectors with reselect if you like.
• route has these properties
  • pathname(String): /foo/1 // path
  • search(String): sample=true // Query param. you can use third-party library(https://github.com/ljharb/qs) to parse query.
  • params(Object): {id: 1} // Matched params(declared in onEnter)
  • route(String): /foo/:id // Matched route(declared in onEnter)

getCurrent(state)

• Extracts current route from state

getLast(state)

• Extracts last route from state

getNext(state)

• Extracts next route from state

getRouteError(state)

• Extracts routeError from state
• routeError become true or Error(truthy value) when you call onEnter handler's callback with falsy value or Error object.

getIsLoading(state)

• Extracts isLoading from state
• isLoading become true after onEnter called and until onEnter resolved(by call cb).
• This is useful to implement page loading animation.

Development

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/subuta/router-redux
cd ./router-redux

2. Install dependencies

• Caddy (Web server for Development)
• jspm@beta (For package management/build)

brew install caddy
npm install jspm@beta -g
npm i
jspm i

3. Run example app

caddy

# Open link.
open http://localhost:3000

LICENSE

MIT