@dgca/react-use-dispatch-methods

About

useDispatchMethods is a wrapper over useReducer to make writing reducer functions easier, cleaner, and more grokkable.

Instead of dispatching actions, and handling them in a handrolled reducer funciton, you pass useDispatchMethods an object of methods that take the current state and a payload, and return the new state, and it returns an object of methods that, when called, dispatch actions that do the things you just defined!

Install

npm install --save @dgca/react-use-dispatch-methods

Usage

useDispatchMethods(methods, initialState, init, dependencyArray) takes four arguments:

• methods - An object of pure functions. Each function's name will be the name you use to update the state later on. Each function will receive an object of {state, payload} as its argument, where state is the current state, and payload is the payload that was passed to the state (if an argument was passed).
• initialState - The initial value of our state. See React's docs on specifying the initial state.
• init - See React's docs on lazy initialization.
• dependencyArray - To avoid recreating the underlying objects that make this hook work, we memoize a couple things using useMemo and useCallback. If you must modify your methods, pass a dependencyArray and we'll forward that onto useMemo and useCallback.

useDispatchMethods returns an array of [state, dispatch] where state is the current state, and dispatch is an object of methods to use to update the state.

Example

In the example below, the increment and decrement functions show how to use the state destructured argument, and setValue shows how to use the payload argument.

import React from 'react'
import { useDispatchMethods } from '@dgca/react-use-dispatch-methods'

const Example = () => {
  const [state, dispatch] = useDispatchMethods(
    {
      increment: ({ state }) => state + 1,
      decrement: ({ state }) => state - 1,
      setValue: ({ payload }) => payload
    },
    0
  )

  return (
    <div>
      <p>The count is {state}</p>
      <button onClick={dispatch.increment}>Increment</button>
      <button onClick={dispatch.decrement}>Decrement</button>
      <input
        type='number'
        value={state}
        onChange={e => {
          const num = parseInt(e.target.value, 10)
          dispatch.setValue(num)
        }}
      />
    </div>
  )
}

License

MIT © dgca

This hook is created using create-react-hook.