React Suspense

This library is an attempt to implement an API similar to React 19's Suspense, but on the client and with a few differences:

• Components are not unmouted when they are suspended, just hidden.
• Instead of promises being passed to the children, the children call a function to execute arbitrary asynchronous code that suspends the components.
• There is support for implementing a timeout and manually resume or cancel the current action.

The git repository conttains an example app that uses this library as intended, but here's a quick example:

import { SuspenseBoundary, useSuspenseController } from '@ptolemy2002/react-suspense';

function MyComponent() {
    return (
        <SuspenseBoundary>
            <Suspense fallback={<div>Loading...</div>}>
                <MyAsyncComponent />
            </Suspense>
        </SuspenseBoundary>
    );
}

function MyAsyncComponent() {
    const [{suspend}] = useSuspenseController();

    return (
        <button onClick={() => {
            suspend(async () => {
                await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
            });
        }}>
            Click me!
        </button>
    );
}

The functions are not exported as default, so you can import them in one of the following ways:

// ES6
import { functionName } from '@ptolemy2002/react-suspense';
// CommonJS
const { functionName } = require('@ptolemy2002/react-suspense');

Classes

The following classes are available in the library:

SuspenseTimeoutError

Description

A basic error class that is thrown when a suspense action times out. It is a subclass of Error. You can check if an error is of this type by using e instanceof SuspenseTimeoutError, e.name === 'SuspenseTimeoutError', or e.isTimeout.

Parameters

• message (String): The message to be displayed when the error is thrown. Default is 'Suspense timeout.'

SuspenseController

Description

This is the class that is provided by the useSuspenseController hook. It contains methods to suspend, resume, and cancel the current action, along with properties that can be used to check times.

Properties

• isLoading (Boolean): true if the current action is suspended, false otherwise.
• suspenseCount (Number): The number of times the boundary has been suspended.
• startTime (Number): The time at which the last action started, or null if no action has started yet or a current action is in progress.
• endTime (Number): The time at which the last action ended, or null if no action has ended yet or a current action is in progress.
• elapsedTime (Number): The time in milliseconds between the start and end of the last action, or null if no action has ended yet or a current action is in progress.

Methods

• suspend (Function): Suspends the current action and executes the provided function, returning its result.
  • Arguments:
    • fn (Function): The function to be executed asynchronously.
    • args (Object): An object that can optionally specify the following properties:
      • timeout (Number): The time in milliseconds before the action times out. Default is null, meaning no timeout. When the timeout is reached, SuspenseTimeoutError is thrown.
      • onTimeout (Function): A function that is called when the action times out. Passed the timeout error as an argument. Default is null.
      • onCancel (Function): A function that is called when the action is cancelled. Passed the cancellation value as an argument. Default is null.
      • onForceResume (Function): A function that is called when the forceResume Passed the resolution value as an argument. Default is null.
      • onForceEnd (Function): A function that is called when the action either times out, is cancelled, or forceResume is called. Passed the resulting value (timeout error, cancellation value, or resolution value) as the first argument and a description of the cause as the second argument (either 'timeout', 'cancel', or 'resume'). Default is null.
  • Returns:
    • Any - The result of the function.
• forceResume (Function): Resumes the current action by resolving.
  • Arguments:
    • result (Any): The result to be returned by the suspend function.
  • Returns:
    • None
• cancel (Function): Cancels the current action by rejecting.
  • Arguments:
    • result (Any): The result to be thrown by the suspend function.
  • Returns:
    • None

Components

The following components are available in the library:

SuspenseBoundary

Description

A component that is necessary to use the library's features. It provides a SuspenseController object to its children using context. the fallback is shown when an action is in progress and children is shown otherwise. Note that no component ever gets unmounted, just hidden.

Props

• fallback (ReactNode): The component to show when an action is in progress.
• init (Function): A function that is called when the boundary first mounts. If this is specified, the boundary starts in a suspended state.

Hooks

The following hooks are available in the library:

useSuspenseController

Description

A hook that provides the SuspenseController object from the nearest SuspenseBoundary component along with a setter to reassign it if you need to do so for some reason.

Parameters

• deps - An array of properties of the SuspenseController object to listen to. If any of these properties change, the hook will re-render. If this is falsy, any mutation will trigger a re-render. You can also specify a function that returns a boolean to determine whether to re-render, provided with the following arguments:
  • prop (String): The property that changed.
  • value (Any): The current value of the property.
  • prevValue (Any): The previous value of the property.
  • current (Object): The current context object.

Returns

• Array - An array with the first element being the current SuspenseController object and the second element being a setter function to reassign the context.

Meta

This is a React Library Created by Ptolemy2002's cra-template-react-library template in combination with create-react-app. It contains methods of building and publishing your library to npm. For now, the library makes use of React 18 and does not use TypeScript.

Peer Dependencies

These should be installed in order to use the library, as npm does not automatically add peer dependencies to your project.

• @types/react: ^18.3.3
• @types/react-dom: ^18.3.0
• react: ^18.3.1
• react-dom: ^18.3.1

Commands

The following commands exist in the project:

• npm run uninstall - Uninstalls all dependencies for the library
• npm run reinstall - Uninstalls and then Reinstalls all dependencies for the library
• npm run example-uninstall - Uninstalls all dependencies for the example app
• npm run example-install - Installs all dependencies for the example app
• npm run example-reinstall - Uninstalls and then Reinstalls all dependencies for the example app
• npm run example-start - Starts the example app after building the library
• npm run build - Builds the library
• npm run release - Publishes the library to npm without changing the version
• npm run release-patch - Publishes the library to npm with a patch version bump
• npm run release-minor - Publishes the library to npm with a minor version bump
• npm run release-major - Publishes the library to npm with a major version bump