simple-redux-collection - Redux helper for simple collection management

Motivation

We work with collections every day, and creating monotonous reducers and actions can be quite tedious. So I decided to create this helper to minimize code duplication.

Demo

Include redux actions for:

• set a new item
• set new items
• delete item
• reset collection to initial state

Install

You can install simple-redux-collection with npm or yarn

$ npm i simple-redux-collection -s 

or

yarn add simple-redux-collection

Documentation

import collectionReducer from "simple-redux-collection";

collectionReducer({name, key, initialState})

options

name: String [required] - reducer name, all actions types will be created in @{name}/action_type format

initialState : Object [optional] - reducer inital state (empty object by default)

Example of reducer state:

{
    uid1: {uid: 'uid1', title: 'title'},
    uid2: {uid: 'uid2', title: 'title 2'},
}

Return object {ACTIONS_TYPES, actionCreators, reducer}

ACTIONS_TYPES: Object - all action type constants, can be used in middleware

SET_ITEM: @{name}/set_item,
SET_ITEMS: @{name}/set_items,
REMOVE_ITEM: @{name}/remove_item,
RESET: @${name}/reset,

actionCreators: Object - object of actions creators:

setItem: ({key, value})

setItems: ([{key, value}]), 

removeItem: (id: String|Number)

reset: ()

reducer: (state: Object, action: Object) => state - regular Redux reducer function

Example

Let's create collection for list of comments

Reducer file:

import createReducer from "simple-redux-collection";

const initialState = {
  id1: { id: "id1", title: "Commemt title", time: "30/11/2019, 22:21:29" }
};
const { reducer, actionCreators } = createReducer({name: "comments", initialState});

// reducer function should be added to a root reducer
export { reducer, actionCreators };

Container file:

import { connect } from "react-redux";
import { actionCreators } from "./reducer";
import Comments from "./Comments";

const { setItem, setItems, removeItem, reset } = actionCreators;

const mapStateToProps = state => ({
  comments: state.comments
});

const mapDispatchToProps = {
  setItem, setItems, removeItem, reset
};

export default connect(
  mapStateToProps,
  mapDispatchToProps
)(Comments);

Now all actions and collection items can be used as props in the Comments component.

import PropTypes from "prop-types";
import React, { useState } from "react";

const Comments = ({ comments, setItem, removeItem, reset }) => {
  const [inputValue, changeCommentText] = useState("");

  const addNewComment = () => {
    // id is required for creating new item
    const id = String(Math.random());
    setItem({
      key: id,
      value: {
        id,
        title: inputValue,
        time: new Date().toLocaleString()
      }
    });

    changeCommentText("");
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <input
        onChange={e => changeCommentText(e.target.value)}
        value={inputValue}
      />
      <button onClick={addNewComment}>Post new comment</button>
      <div>
        {/* you can use your selector in container to return data in required format */}
        {Object.values(comments).map(({ id, title, time }) => (
          <div key={id} className="item">
            <b>{title}</b> <i>Comment time: {time}</i>
            <button
              onClick={() =>
                // id use as the `key` in reducer and it's required for updating item
                setItem({
                  key: id,
                  value: { id, title, time: new Date().toLocaleString() }
                })
              }
            >
              Update comment time
            </button>
            <button className="delete" onClick={() => removeItem(id)}>
              Delete
            </button>
          </div>
        ))}
      </div>
      <button className="reset" onClick={reset}>
        Reset
      </button>
    </div>
  );
};

Comments.propTypes = {
  comments: PropTypes.array,
  setItem: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  removeItem: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  reset: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
};

export default Comments;

Check the full code example