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npm install react-redux-gen

react-redux-gen

Redux-gen will generate actions, thunk and reducers in one line using naming conventions and API based.

You can use fully if you have an standard object CRUD, like an User, or use the plain actions and extend with your async actions.

This is based on Redux. If this is too advanced for you, and you need to know more in how to use redux, please check the guides: https://redux.js.org/recipes/reducing-boilerplate

Purpose

Redux Gen generate actions and reducers based on convention, and there's many use cases to use the way you want

Why?

As the application increase, the process of create actions and reducers is pretty repetitive and we can get a lot of benefits if we use the same language that API REST naming conventions if we are connecting on an API.

Methods

You can use these three utility functions from react-redux-gen:

import { genActionNames, genPlainActions, genAsyncActions } from 'react-redux-gen'

genActionNames

Returns the action names in a object so you can use to be referecend later, like on reducers

genActionNames(entity, types, states)

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
entity	String	The entity name	There's no default for this one
types	Array	Types of action	Array('create', 'update', 'delete', 'list', 'fetch')
states	Array	States of request	Array('REQUESTED', 'SUCCESS', 'ERROR')

genPlainActions

Returns the action functions in a friendly way to be used to dispatch actions

genPlainActions(entity, types, states)

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
entity	String	The entity name	There's no default for this one
types	Array	Types of action	Array('create', 'update', 'delete', 'list', 'fetch')
states	Array	States of request	Array('REQUESTED', 'SUCCESS', 'ERROR')

For REQUESTED state, it will return the following action object:

{ type: 'ENTITY_TYPE_REQUESTED', completed: false, error: false }

For SUCCESS state, it will return the following action object:

{ type: 'ENTITY_TYPE_SUCCESS', completed: true, data: data, error: false }

For ERROR state, it will return the following action object:

{ type: 'ENTITY_TYPE_ERROR', completed: true, error: error }

genAsyncActions

Returns the async action standard function to communicate with rest API. These functions make calls to api's based on the base URL, dispatching request action, success when succeed, and error when the the call to the api fails. We use axios to make our calls.

genAsyncActions(entity, url, headers, types, states)

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
entity	String	The entity name	There's no default for this one
url	String	The base url to call	There's no default for this one
headers	Object	Extra headers	There's no default for this one
types	Array	Types of action	Array('create', 'update', 'delete', 'list', 'fetch')
states	Array	States of request	Array('REQUESTED', 'SUCCESS', 'ERROR')

Example

This is a basic example to use to define the CRUD actions for your user object

import { genPlainActions, genAsyncActions } from 'react-redux-gen'

const userActions = genPlainActions('user')
const userAsyncActions = genAsyncActions('user', '/users)

export { userActions, userAsyncActions }

This code above will generate the actions needed with states REQUESTED, SUCCESS and ERROR for actions and the async actions with the basic calls from these states.

This will generate the following actions object:

{
  'create': ['CREATE_USER_REQUESTED', 'CREATE_USER_SUCCESS', 'CREATE_USER_ERROR'],
  'update': ['UPDATE_USER_REQUESTED', 'UPDATE_USER_SUCCESS', 'UPDATE_USER_ERROR'],
  'delete': ['DELETE_USER_REQUESTED', 'DELETE_USER_SUCCESS', 'DELETE_USER_ERROR'],
  'list': ['LIST_USER_REQUESTED', 'LIST_USER_SUCCESS', 'LIST_USER_ERROR'],
  'fetch': ['FETCH_USER_REQUESTED', 'FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', 'FETCH_USER_ERROR'],
}

And the following async actions from a base url

Our generated async actions is like this:

import axios from 'axios'
import { genPlainActions, genActionNames } from 'react-redux-gen'

const actions = genPlainActions('user', '/authenticated', ['action'])
// [0] => REQUESTED, [1] => SUCCESS, [2] => ERROR

const example = () => {
  return dispatch => {
    dispatch(actions.action[0]())
    return axios
      .get('/authenticated')
      .then( response => {
        return dispatch(actions.action[1](response.data))
      }).catch( e => {
        return dispatch(actions.action[2](e))
      })
  }
}

Important NOTE!

The async actions is still experimental and we don't support much customization for these case, and we hope to improve this for new releases.

How to use

With the async object is possible to dispatch actions from this call, for example:

genAsyncActions('user', 'http://example.com/user/')['create']({name: 'jonh doe'})

Will dispatch

{ type: 'CREATE_USER_REQUESTED', completed: false }, { type: 'CREATE_USER_SUCCESS', error: false, completed: true, data: {name: 'John doe'} },

and for an error on create:

will generate { type: 'CREATE_USER_REQUESTED', completed: false }, { type: 'CREATE_USER_ERROR', error: {}, completed: true }

If you want to pass headers to axios, you should run like this example:

import { genPlainActions, genAsyncActions } from 'react-redux-gen' 

const headers = {
    'Authorization': `Basic ${process.env.REACT_APP_SECRET}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  }

const userActions = genPlainActions('user')
const userAsyncActions = genAsyncActions('user', '/users', headers)

export { userActions, userAsyncActions }

And for reducers

import { genReducer } from 'react-redux-gen'

const user = genReducer('user', { data: {}, error: false, completed: true }) // the object and initial state

export default user

Custom examples

If you want to use just the actions and use your own async actions, feel free to do like the example below for a login action:

1import { genPlainActions, genActionNames } from 'react-redux-gen'
2import { host } from '../url'
3
4import Auth from '../modules/Auth'
5
6const headers = {
7  'Authorization': `Bearer ${Auth.getToken()}`,
8  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
9}
10
11const loginActionNames = genActionNames('user', ['logged', 'login', 'logout'])
12const loginActions = genPlainActions('user',['logged', 'login', 'logout', 'register'])
13
14const logged = () => {
15  return dispatch => {
16    dispatch(loginActions.logged[0]())
17    return axios
18      .get(host + '/authenticated', { headers: {
19        'Authorization': `Bearer ${Auth.getToken()}`,
20        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
21      }
22      })
23      .then( response => {
24        return dispatch(loginActions.logged[1](response.data))
25      }).catch( e => {
26        return dispatch(loginActions.logged[2](e))
27      })
28  }
29}
30
31const login = (user) => {
32  return dispatch => {
33    dispatch(loginActions.login[0]())
34    return axios
35      .post(host + '/authorize/local', user)
36      .then( response => {
37        return dispatch(loginActions.login[1](response.data))
38      }).catch( e => {
39        return dispatch(loginActions.login[2](e))
40      })
41  }
42}
43
44const logout = () => {
45  return (dispatch) => {
46    dispatch(loginActions.logout[0]())
47    if(Auth.deauthenticateUser()) {
48      return dispatch(loginActions.logout[1]({}))
49    }
50    return dispatch(loginActions.logout[2](new Error('we have an error to logout, try again later')))
51  }
52}
53
54const register = (user) => {
55  return dispatch => {
56    dispatch(loginActions.register[0]())
57    return axios
58      .post(host + '/auth/register', user)
59      .then( response => {
60        return dispatch(loginActions.register[1](response.data))
61      }).catch( e => {
62        return dispatch(loginActions.register[2](e))
63      })
64  }
65}
66
67
68
69export { loginActionNames, loginActions, logged, login, logout, register }

Reducer

For a login reducer, we could use

import {
  loginActionNames
} from '../actions/login'

const login = (state = { completed: true, data: {}, error: false }, action) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case loginActionNames.logged[0]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed }
    case loginActionNames.logged[1]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed, data: action.data, error: false }
    case loginActionNames.logged[2]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed, error: action.error }
    case loginActionNames.logout[0]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed, error: action.error }
    case loginActionNames.logout[1]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed, error: action.error, data: action.data }
    case loginActionNames.logout[2]:
      return { ...state, completed: action.completed, error: action.error }
    default:
      return state
  }
}

export default login

Where is used

Ahorta - https://ahorta.io

You can check our actions and reducers from a project using react-redux-gen

See full example on a real project

Contribute

Run the first time

yarn install

Run the project

yarn start

Run the tests

yarn test

Contributors

This package is maintained by Alexandre Magno

License

This open source library is licensed under MIT