use-global-context

Use-global-context is a new way to use useContext better.

Features

• Easy global state management with useState or useReducer.
• Prevents the unnecessary renders.
• useSelector function.
• Support for SSR.

Why

The context API allows you to create a simple store in combination with hooks such as useState and useReducer.

However, it can lead to unnecessary renders if you don't split the context with proper granularity. It also doesn't have a feature like redux's useSelector. That means you have to memo. Please see the solutions.

On the other hand, while redux is appropriate for managing large amounts of state, I don't think it's necessary for small projects to adopt such a large library.

This library is intended to avoid the implementation costs of redux and also to prevent unnecessary renders, which is a problem with the context API.

Installation

You can install the package from npm.

npm install use-global-context

or

yarn add use-global-context

Usage

General

import React from "react";
import { createUseStateContext } from "use-global-context";

// You can add global state here. easy !!
const [useGlobalContext, ContextProvider] = createUseStateContext({
  counter: 0,
  message: "",
  app: {
    name: "use-global-context",
    description: "A easy global state management library",
  },
});

const App = () => (
  <ContextProvider>
    <Counter />
    <CounterButton />
  </ContextProvider>
)

const Counter = () => {
  // You can get the state value of the context as follows
  const counter = useGlobalContext(({ state }) => state.counter);

  return <p>counter: {counter}</p>;
};

const CounterButton = () => {
  const counterDispatch = useGlobalContext(({ dispatch }) => dispatch.counter);

  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={() => counterDispatch((c) => c + 1)}>+ 1</button>
      <button onClick={() => counterDispatch((c) => c - 1)}>- 1</button>
    </>
  );
};

API

createUseStateContext API

createUseStateContext is an API that executes each value of the argument as the value of useState and generates the result as hooks.

import React from "react";
import { createUseStateContext } from "use-global-context";

const [useGlobalContext, ContextProvider] = createUseStateContext({
  counter: 0,
  message: "",
  app: {
    name: "use-global-context",
    description: "A easy global state management library",
  }
});

You can use it as follows.

const state = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => state);
// {
//   counter: 0,
//   message: '',
//   app: {
//     name: 'use-global-context',
//     description: 'A easy global state management library'
//   }
// }


const app = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => state.app);
// {
//   name: "use-global-context",
//   description: "A easy global state management library",
// }

const dispatch = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => dispatch)
// Each of the dispatch functions
// {
//   counter: ƒ dispatchAction,
//   message: ƒ dispatchAction,
//   app: ƒ dispatchAction
// }

const counterDispatch = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => dispatch.counter);
// counter: ƒ dispatchAction,

createUseReducerContext API

createUseReducerContext is an API that executes each value of the argument as a value of useRecuer and generates the result as hooks.

Each argument of this API can be the same as useReducer.

import React from "react";
import { createUseReducerContext } from "use-global-context";

import { counterReducer, counterInitialState } from './reducer/counter'
import { messageReducer, messageInitialState } from './reducer/message'
import { userReducer, userInitialState } from './reducer/user'


export const [useGlobalContext, ContextProvider] = createUseReducerContext({
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: counterInitialState,
  },
  message: {
    reducer: messageReducer,
    initialState: messageInitialState,
  },
  user: {
    reducer: userReducer,
    initialState: userInitialState,
  },
});

The usage is the same as createUseStateContext API.

TypeScript

Context value's type

You can define the value type of the context as follows. For example, to define the type of the value of a context created with createUseReducerContext, you can use the following.

import {
  createUseReducerContext,
  UseReducerContextValue,
} from 'use-global-context';
import { counterReducer, counterInitialState } from './reducer/counter'
import { messageReducer, messageInitialState } from './reducer/message'
import { userReducer, userInitialState } from './reducer/user'

const contextValue = {
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: counterInitialState,
  },
  message: {
    reducer: messageReducer,
    initialState: messageInitialState,
  },
  user: {
    reducer: userReducer,
    initialState: userInitialState,
  },
}

const [useGlobalContext, ContextProvider] = createUseReducerContext(contextValue);

// You can define like this !!
type GlobalContextValue = UseReducerContextValue<typeof contextValue>;

const userNameSelector = (state: GlobalContextValue) => state.user.name

const userName = useGlobalContext(userNameSelector)

You can also define the type of the value of a context created by createUseStateContext by using the UseStateContextValue type as well.

Examples

CreateUseStateContext API example

This is an example of a counter app that uses the createUseStateContext API.

Notice that each time you increase/decrease the count, only the render of the Counter comport is running. (No unnecessary renders are happening.)

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CreateUseReducerContext API example

Similar to the example above, this is an example of a counter app using the createUseReducerContext API.

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License

MIT © kqito