Redux Namespace

Dead simple tool moving component local state to a Redux store namespace.

npm install --save redux-namespace

Motivation

Transient state like toggles and form input require too much boiler plate.

redux-namespace helps you connect your component with a trivial key value store. This solves the far–too–painful/should–be–easier problems with managing view state after routing.

Why store component state outside the component?

To get the incredible time traveling super powers and retained transients provided from having complete hydration of your app state. Time travel is fun, play with this.

Redux Namespace builds on React Redux, but provides new methods: assign, cursor and select to go with dispatch.

• Calling assign(key, value) puts a value in your namespace and select(key) gets it out.
• Calling select() with no parameters returns the entire namespace.
• Calling cursor(key) returns a nested namespace.

Connecting your components with their own namespace is trivial. Use it like React Redux, but forget about writing the selectors.

namespace.connect('recipe/editor')(Component)

Installation

npm install --save redux-namespace

Attach the Reducer

import { createStore, combineReducers } from 'redux';
import namespace from 'redux-namespace';

const store = createStore(combineReducers({namespace}));

Usage

Native

import React, {View, Text, TextInput, TouchableHighlight, } from 'react-native'
import namespace from 'redux-namespace/native';

// If decorators are your thing
@namespace.connect('component/namespace')
class Form extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {...namespace.shape}

  render () {
    let {select, assign, dispatch} = this.props;
    return (
      <View>
        <TextInput
          value={select('email')} onChange={assign('email')}/>

        <TextInput
          value={select('password')} onChange={assign('password')}/>

        <TouchableHighlight onPress={e => dispatch(someAction(select()))}>
          <Text>Submit</Text>
        </TouchableHighlight>
      </View>
    )
  }
}

Web

import React from 'react'
import namespace from 'redux-namespace';

class Form extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {...namespace.shape}

  render () {
    let {select, assign, dispatch} = this.props;
    return (
      <form onSumbit={() => dispatch(someAction(select()))}/>
        <input
          value={select('email')}
          onChange={e => assign('email', e.target.value)}/>
        <input
          value={select('password')}
          onChange={e => assign('password', e.target.value)}/>
      </form>
    )
  }
}

// Or, if decorators aren't your thing
export namespace.connect('component/namespace')(Form)

Routing

<Route path='free-pizza'
  component={ namespace.connect('pizza-surplus')(Component) }/>

You get a namespace, and you get a namespace … !

Automatically wrap your routes by assigning them after they're made.

let routes = [
  <Route/>
  <Route/>
  <Route/>
]

routes = routes.map(route => namespace.connect(route.path)(route))

Lazy binding… sort of

@namespace.connect('recipes')
class RecipeEditor extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {...namespace.shape}

  render () {
    let document = namespace.connect(`recipes/${select('currentId')}`);
    let autosave = namespace.connect(`recipes/${select('currentId')}/autosave`);
    let groceries = namespace.connect('groceries');

    let Loader = document(Await)
    let Autosave = document(autosave(DebouncedSave))

    return (
      <Loader>
        <Autosave/>
        { map(React.createElement,
            map(document, [
              Menu,
              WYSIWYG,
              Editor,
              WordCount,
              groceries(VegetableCount),
              groceries(CalorieCount),
              groceries(CountChoculaCount)
            ]))
          }
      </Loader>
    )
  }
}

Skip writing actions

Using the namespace.BIND constant you can write new reducers to work with your events without adding more plumbing.

function (state, action) {
  if (action.type === namespace.BIND) {
    let {namespace, key, value} = action.payload;

    switch (namespace) {
      case 'app/signup':
        state[namespace][key].error = validate(key, value.field);
        break;

      case 'my/easter/egg':
        if (key === 'menuToggle')
          if (++state.finalCountdown > 5)
            state.surpriseCatGif = true
        break;
    }

    // I'm not sure which is more esoteric, the previous example or this one
    if (state.namespace[namespace][ttl] > new Date() - state[ttl][action.namespace][key])
      delete state.namespace[namespace][key];
  }

  return state;
}

Although you probably shouldn't do this often, it's faster than scaffolding the additional constants and action creators. Beware, with great power comes greater side effects… that we probably should avoid unless we liked Angular 1—better known as Whoopsie Daisy.

License

MIT