Graphstore

An observable persistent real-time store based on Mobx

About

GraphStore is an observable persistent real-time store for React based on Mobx. It allows one to

Installation

npm install graphstore --save

Usage: Get from store

import { observer, autorun } from 'mobx';
import { Model, stores, GraphStoreMemory } from '@besync/graphstore';
import { mockData } from '@besync/graphstore-test-mockdata';

Model.setDefaultStore(new GraphStoreMemory(mockData()));

let user = stores.UserStore.getbyId(userId)};
let posts = user.userPosts;

The user object returned is actually an observable object that will stay up to date whenever the state changes (whether within the application or directly on the back end store).

By accessing the userPosts property, GraphStore will automatically "lazy-connect" to the database to get the associated UserPosts for this User. Again the posts object in this case is an observable collection that will stay up to date with any added, deleted, or updates posts.

Usage: Business Logic / UI

GraphStore objects are just MobX observables. So in a React @obseserver render() method or in a console application autorun they just stay up to date. They also contain a useful loading property.

autorun(() => {
  console.log(
    !(user.loading || users.userPosts.loading)
      ? `${user.name} has ${posts.length} posts`
      : 'loading from database'
  )
})

Usage: Render (React)

The following class will automatically subscribe to the database starting with the first render, and will automatically release the subscription when the component is no longer in scope. The render() will be recalled whenever any of the data changes (from the database or from other views).

@observer
class UserView extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state =  { user: User = stores.UserStore.getbyId(props.userId)};
  }

  render() {
        return (user.loading) ? <div>Loading<div> :
        <div>
        Hello this.state.user.username;
        </div>
    }
}

Usage: Update/Delete actions

GraphStore keeps the backend persistent store up to date with any state changes. Just remember to wrap them in MobX actions if using strict mode.

@action function update() {
  userPosts[1].delete();
  user.name = "GraphStore Expert";
}

Usage: Create actions

GraphStore uses push on a collection to create new documents. Just remember to wrap them in MobX actions so that you can add all the primary keys etc before the back end store is updated.

@action function create() {
  var newPost = userPosts.push();
  newPost.id = "-myNewPost";
}

Example input schema ()

We include some utility code generators (see packages/graphstore-dev) to generate a GraphQl schema from backend databases such as Firebase. These schema are in turn converted into TypeScript code automatically, and used by the library. An example of the input schema is as follows (typically code generated for large existing databases, but can be manually post-edited).

Note that we use graphql for the schema with custom decorators simply as a lingua franca; it does not imply that the server or the client libraries use GraphQL (although they certainly can be!)

type User @connector(byId: "(id) => getDocument('users/${id}')") {
  id: UserId! @primary
  email: String!
  profile_picture: String!
  username: String!
  chats: [Chat] @resolver(get: "ChatsForUser(id)")
  logs: [Log] @resolver(get: "LogsForUser(id)")
  userPosts: [UserPost] @resolver(get: "UserPostsForUser(id)")
}

Back end integrations

Currently the library has connectors for the Firebase realtime database and for a JSON-based in memory store.

License

Apache 2.0