pinia-json-api

pinia-json-api extends Pinia Store with capabilities to fetch typed data models via an JSON:API endpoint into record instances.

A PiniaApiStore is defined with an endpoint and model definitions and the store instance API provides methods findAll, findRecord to fetch record(s). PiniaApiStore will automatically resolve included relationships. If relationships for a record are not included they can be fetched later using findRelated.

Records are shallowReactive and if previously fetched they will be updated by subsequent fetches.

Example usage

A service returning the canonical example JSON:API document at https://jsonapi.org/ can be consumed by a store defined in this way:

import { definePiniaJsonApiStore, Model, type ModelDefinition, RelationshipType } from 'pinia-json-api'

export class Person extends Model {
  firstName?: string
  lastName?: string
  twitter?: string
}

export class Comment extends Model {
  body?: string
}

export class Article extends Model {
  title?: string
  author: Person | null = null
  comments: Comment[] = []
}

const modelDefinitions: ModelDefinition[] = [
  {
    type: 'person',
    ctor: Person,
  },
  {
    type: 'comment',
    ctor: Comment,
  },
  {
    type: 'article',
    ctor: Article,
    rels: {
      author: { ctor: Person, type: RelationshipType.BelongsTo },
      comments: { ctor: Comment, type: RelationshipType.HasMany },
    },
  },
]

export const useArticlesStore = definePiniaJsonApiStore('articles', {
  endpoint: 'http://localhost/api',
  modelDefinitions
})

The above store can then be used as follows:

import { useArticlesStore } from './stores/articles'
const { findAll } = useArticlesStore()
const { records: articles } = await findAll(Article, { include: ['comments', 'author'] })
expect(articles.length).toBe(1)
const article = articles[0]
expect(article.id).toBe('1')
expect(article.title).toBe('JSON:API paints my bikeshed!')
expect(article.comments.length).toBe(2)
expect(article.comments[0].body).toBe('First!')
expect(article.comments[1].body).toBe('I like XML better')
expect(article.author?.firstName).toBe('Dan')