redux-fetch-duck

Simple and flexible API for creating a redux duck to manage a single fetch request, features loading and error states.

Instalation

It requires redux and thunk middleware.

$ yarn add redux-fetch-duck redux redux-thunk

Example

Simple usage

You can create a single file module in your project

// users.js
import { thunkCreator, withFetch } from 'redux-fetch-duck';

// This function is in charge of fetching the data.
// It must return a promise
const callApi = () => fetch('api.example.com/users');
// Selectors funcions depends on wich library is doing the request. They are optional.
const dataSelector = res => res.data;
const errorSelector = err => err.body.message;

// This functions returns the thunk ready to be disptched.
export const getUsers = thunkCreator('users', callApi, dataSelector, errorSelector)

// creates the duck reducer. 
export default withFetch('users')();

Combine the new duck reducer

// rootReducer.js
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import users from './users';

export default combineReducers({
  users,
})

This generate the state initial state

{
  users: {
    data: null,
    loading: false,
    error: null,
  }
}

Finally dispatch the thunk if you want to fetch de data

import React from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { getUsers } from '../redux/users';

class Container extends React.Component {
  componentWillMount() {
    if (!this.props.users) {
      this.props.dispach(getUsers());
    }
  }
  render() {
    const { loading, users, error } = this.props;
    if (loading) return <div>Loading ...</div>;
    if (error) return <div>Cant fethc data, error: {error}</div>
    return (
      <div>
        {users}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export default connect(state => ({
  loading: state.users.loading,
  error: state.users.error,
  users: state.users.data,
})(Container);

Extend your reducer

If you need a more complex state for your fetching resource you can import the types and action creators.

// users.js
import { thunkCreator, withFetch, types, actionCreators } from 'redux-fetch-duck';

// return an object with keys request, success, failure
const fetchTypes = types('users');

// this reducer will count the number of calls to the API
const calls = (state = 0, action) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case fetchTypes.request:
      return state + 1;
    default:
      return state;
  }
};

// pass the reducer to be combined, it calls combineReducer under the hood.
export default withFetch('users')({ calls })

The new initial state will be

{
  users: {
    data: null,
    loading: false,
    error: null,
    calls: 0,
  }
}

API

You can find the api documentation here

Motivation

This module aims to reduce the boilerplate generated when you adopt this common pattern in Redux based apps.

Test

The test suite requires Jest, clone the repo, install the dependencies and then run the tests.

$ yarn
$ yarn test

Contribution

Feel free to create an Issue or even a pull request. You can email me at [email protected]. I'd love to hear your feedback.

License

MIT