k-redux-factory

Factory of Redux reducers and their associated actions and selectors.

Make your Redux code base tinier and simpler to maintain

Migrating

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Contents

• Purpose
• Why ?
• Installation
• Documentation
• API

Purpose

k-redux-factory creates generic reducers, actions and selectors in two lines.

import { keyValue } from 'k-redux-factory'
export default keyValue({ path: 'api', name: 'todos' })

That's it, you just exported the reducer function and now you can register it through combinerReducer in Redux.

In this example, we have a todos reducer, it has to be combined into state.api.todos.

The default key is id.

You can now use it to dispatch actions and select some datas from this reducer:

import myReducer from './myReducer'

// ...
// add a todo
dispatch(myReducer.add({ id: 1, title: 'Apply to some CFP', completed: false })

// ...
// select a todo
myReducer.get(1)(getState())

One more thing, this lib handle state immutability for you !

Click right here to see the full API.

Why

We like to write Redux code as simple as possible and use its middlewares to handle real world problems. From this point of view, our Redux code base is simpler : it's like a key/value store. But one drawback is the amount of duplicated code, each resource has its own reducers, actions and selectors.

We created this lightweight library, a factory of reducers, actions and selectors, to avoid inconsistency and painful maintainability from our growing Redux code base.

Installation

• yarn add k-redux-factory
• npm i k-redux-factory

Documentation

• factory
• actions
• selectors
• helpers

factory

You need to use the factory to get a new set of reducer/actions/selectors :

// modular factory
import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'

// or - prebuild simple factory
import { simple } from 'k-redux-factory'

// or - prebuild simpleObject factory (DEPRECATED)
import { simpleObject } from 'k-redux-factory'

// or - prebuild keyValue factory
import { keyValue } from 'k-redux-factory'

There are multiple factories signatures, take you preferred between :

• factory(middlewares)(options) : this is the root factory, with middlewares
• factory(options) : this is the root factory, without middlewares
• simple(middlewares)(options) : this is a simple factory with middlewares
• simple(options) : this is a simple factory without middlewares
• DEPRECATED simpleObject(middlewares)(options) : this is a simpleObject factory with middlewares
• DEPRECATED simpleObject(options) : this is a simpleObject factory without middlewares
• keyValue(middlewares)(options) : this is a keyValue factory with middlewares
• keyValue(options) : this is a keyValue factory without middlewares

Parameters are :

• middlewares (optional), contain an object with pre and post fields. Both are an array of middlewares to apply before and after the core middleware
• options (mandatory), either a string representating the reducer name, either an object with these fields :
  • key (exists only for the keyValue type -optional-), the field used to identify your objects (id is the default value)
  • path (optional), where the reducer will be combined via combineReducer
    • if empty, the reducer will be register at the root level of the redux state
    • you can use dot notation, like api.raw: your reducer will be combined into state.api.raw.<your_reducer>
  • name (mandatory), the reducer name (for instance: todos)
    • it's used to generate actions types
    • it's used to retrieve informations from selectors
  • prefix (optional) is added to actions to avoid some collisions when there are two reducers with the same name in two distincts paths
  • type (optional) can be keyValue or simple.<type> (default is keyValue)
  • defaultData (optional), set the default data value, used by reset action and for initialisation (default is an empty object {} for simple.object and default hashmap model for keyValue - see keyValue types section)

Example:

• this reducer will use id as key field
• it's combined into state.api.raw
• it's name is todos
• have default data

import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'

export default factory({ path: 'api.raw', name: 'todos' })

Data will be stored into state.api.raw.todos.

Types

Types are :

• keyValue : your state is a hashmap, useful to bind your API to Redux with the following redux state model :

{
  data: [
    [<key1>, <instance1>],
    [<key2>, <instance2>],
  ],
  initialized: true,
}

• simple : your state is directly your <instance>. This implies that you can not set undefined.
• DEPRECATED simpleObject : your state is directly your <instance>. This implies that you can not set undefined.

Default type is keyValue.

reducer

The previous factory returns a function which is a reducer. You just have to combine it like any other reducer :

import { createStore, combineReducers, compose, applyMiddleware } from 'redux'

// import your reducer
// (created by k-redux-factory)
import todos from './myTodosReducer'

// create your Redux store as usual
const store = createStore(
  combineReducers({
    // [other reducer]
    api: combineReducers({
      // [other reducer]
      raw: combineReducers({
        // import your reducer into api.raw
        // since we configured this path
        todos,
      }),
      // [other reducer]
    }),
    // [other reducer]
  }),
  /* your Redux middlewares */
)

export default store

Exemple keyValue with default state

import { keyValue } from 'k-redux-factory'

const defaultData = [
  {
    id: 1,
    todo: 'write README.MD',
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    todo: 'watch rick and morty season three',
  },
]

export default keyValue({ defaultData })

{
  data: [
    [1, { id: 1, todo: 'write README.MD' }],
    [2, { id: 2, todo: 'watch rick and morty season three' }],
  ],
  initialized: true,
}

actions

The factory returns a function (this is the reducer) that also contains actions and selectors as fields. Some generic actions are available. By now, it's not possible to add custom ones.

To see them go to TYPES.md.

Example, we set todos to our typed keyValue reducer:

// import your reducer
// (created by k-redux-factory)
import todos from './myTodosReducer'

// dispatch can be given by one of your middleware (redux-thunk, redux-saga, etc)
// or it can be given by react-redux for example (mapDispatchToProps)
dispatch(
  // set todos
  todos.set([
    {
      id: '1', // we set 'id' as key in the factory
      visible: true,
      label: 'My first todo',
    },
    {
      id: '2',
      visible: false,
      label: 'This todo is done',
    },
  ])
)

You can also retrieve action name like this : todos.SET

selectors

The factory returns a function (this is the reducer) that also contains actions and selectors as fields. Some generic selectors are available. By now, it's not possible to add custom ones.

To see them go to TYPES.md.

Example, we retrieve the todo with id 1:

// import your reducer
// (created by k-redux-factory)
import todos from './myTodosReducer'

// state can be given by one of your middleware (redux-thunk, redux-saga, etc)
// or it can be given by react-redux for example (mapStateToProps)
todos.get('1')(state)

helpers

signature	description	comment
mapAction(<mapper(action)>)	create middleware and map only redux action	mapper(action) is mandatory
mapState(<regex>)(<mapper(state)>)	create middleware and map the state of the corresponding redux actions type by the regex
reducer(<yourReducer(action, state)>)	create a middleware from a standard redux reducer
mapPayload(<regex>)(<mapper(payload)>)	create middleware and map the payload of the corresponding redux actions type by the regex

Example, we create a middleware but we modify only the action :

import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'
// import your helpers
import { mapAction } from 'k-redux-factory/helpers'

// define a function to map action
const mapper = action => ({ ...action, type: `SET_${action.type}` })
// create your reducer and transform the type of action before core middleware
export default factory({ pre: [mapAction(mapper)] })({ path: 'api.raw', name: 'todos' })

Example, we create a middleware but we modify only the state :

import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'
// import your helpers
import { mapState } from 'k-redux-factory/helpers'

// define a function to change state
const mapper = state => ({...state, todos: 'TODO_CHANGED'})
// create your reducer and transform the state before core middleware
export default factory({ pre: [mapState(/SET>TODOS/)(mapper)] })({ path: 'api.raw', name: 'todos' })

Example, we create a middleware but we modify action and state :

import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'
// import your helpers
import { reducer } from 'k-redux-factory/helpers'

// define a function to map state depending on the action
const mapper = (action, state) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'SET_TODOS': return { todos: 'TODOS_CHANGED' }
    case 'LOG_TODOS': console.log(state)
    default: return state
  }
}
// create your reducer and transform the action and state before core middleware
export default factory({ pre: [reducer(mapper)] })({ path: 'api.raw', name: 'todos' })

Example, we create a middleware but we modify only the payload :

import { factory } from 'k-redux-factory'
// import your helpers
import { mapPayload } from 'k-redux-factory/helpers'

// define a function to map payload
const mapper = payload => payload.map(p => ({ ...p, id: `ID_${p.id}` }))
// create your reducer and transform the payload before core middleware
export default factory({ pre: [mapPayload(/SET>TODOS/)(mapper)] })({ path: 'api.raw', name: 'todos' })

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