Denormalize

Utility to save your complex data structures during normalization

Currently works with:

• Options tsoption
• Dates

Why?

Imagine yourself trying to send Dates or Options to the server and receiving it back. denormalize is aimed to help you with that by preparing your object to normalization and denormalization.

Example

1. For example, you have objectToNormalize which you want to send to the server

import { Option } from "tsoption";


const objectToNormalize = {
  age: Option.of(42),
  expireAt: new Date()
};

Option during normalization is going to be converted to plain JS object with all metadata lost

2. To save our precious data we need to prepare our object and add our metadata

import { prenormalize } from 'denormalize';


const prenormalized = prenormalize(objectToNormalize)

After prenormalizing object'll look like that

{
  age: {
    value: 42,
    OPTION_MARK: true
  },
  expireAt: new Date()
};

3. Now it's time to send our object to the server

After serialization it'll look like that

const serialized =
  '{age:{value:42,OPTION_MARK:true},expireAt:"Wed Apr 10 2019 17:23:19 GMT+0300 (Moscow Standard Time)"}';

4. Later we need to receive it from the server and deserialize

After deserialization it'll look like that

const deserialized = {
  age: {
    value: 42,
    OPTION_MARK: true
  },
  expireAt: 'Wed Apr 10 2019 17:23:19 GMT+0300 (Moscow Standard Time)'
};

5. The final and the most important step: denormalization

Here we restore all precious metadata

import { denormalize } from 'denormalize';

const denoramlized = denormalize(deserialized)


const denormalized = {
  age: Option.of(42),
  expireAt: new Date()
};

Real world examples

Denormalizing data from the server

import { denormalize } from '@breadhead/denormalize'

export const fetchArticleRequest = (api: Api) => (
  id: number,
): Promise<ArticleModel> =>
  api.client
    .get('/articles')
    .then(response => denormalize(response.data) as ArticleModel[])
    .then(articles => articles.find(article => id === article.id))
    .then(article => {
      if (!article) {
        throw new Error(`Article with proided id (${id}) not found`)
      }

      return article
    })

Prenormalizing data

import { denormalize, prenormalize } from '@breadhead/denormalize'

export const getOrCreateStore = (initialState?: State) => {
  if (isServer) {
    prenormalize(initialState)
  }

  const state = denormalize(initialState)

  // Always make a new store if server, otherwise state is shared between requests
  if (isServer) {
    return initializeStore(state)
  }

  // Create store if unavailable on the client and set it on the window object
  // prettier-ignore
  if (!(window as any)[__NEXT_REDUX_STORE__]) {
    (window as any)[__NEXT_REDUX_STORE__] = initializeStore(state)
  }

  return (window as any)[__NEXT_REDUX_STORE__]
}