DIY boilerplate remover

Consists of 4 parts:

getMiddleware

getMiddleware is a function that will create a middleware. It takes one parameter which is an object passed to axios as default values. See https://github.com/axios/axios#request-config for request config.

Usage:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux'
import thunk from 'redux-thunk'

import { middleware as simpleApi } from '@toska/apina'
import combinedReducers from './redux'

const composeEnhancers = window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ || compose

const store = createStore(
  combinedReducers,
  composeEnhancers(applyMiddleware(thunk, simpleApi({ baseURL: '/api' }))),

apiReducer and errorReducer

You can write your own reducers, but apiReducer will work for a restful api (?). It's written with convention over configuration in mind so if you want anything different I suggest writing your own.

ErrorReducer is also optional and will offer all request errors so you can push changes to a toast or notification.

Usage:

import { combineReducers } from 'redux'

import { apiReducer as api } from '@toska/apina'
import { errorReducer as errors } from '@toska/apina'

export default combineReducers({
  api,
  errors
})

buildAction

buildAction will return an action for you to dispatch. You can await the dispatch at it will return the data (or error), the promise is resolved with the request.

Usage:

import { buildAction } from '@toska/apina'

/**
 * The first parameter will be the resource in redux store
 */

export const getMessagesAction = () =>
  buildAction('messages', { url: '/messages' })

/**
 * Second parameter accepts anything axios would accept
 */
export const postMessageAction = (message) =>
  buildAction('messages', { url: '/messages', method: 'post', data: message })

/**
 * Since a DELETE request will only receive a 200 OK message we need to pass the id as the 3rd parameter.
 */
export const deleteMessageAction = (id) =>
  buildAction('messages', { url: `/messages/${id}`, method: 'delete' }, id)

Convention

Your API should return objects with id field. If they do not have an id field or if the response is not an object (or in case of GET /collection requests, an array) the middleware and/or reducer will not work.