feathers-redux-immutable

An immutable, redux data store for FeathersJS services.

Install

npm install feathers-redux-immutable --save

Usage

import reduxifyServices from 'feathers-redux-immutable';
const feathersClient = feathers()...;

// Create Redux actions and reducers for Feathers services
const services = reduxifyServices(feathersClient, ['messages', 'users']);

// Configure Redux store & reducers
export default combineReducers({
  messages: services.messages.reducer,
  users: services.users.reducer,
});

// Feathers service calls may now be dispatched.
store.dispatch(services.messages.get('557XxUL8PalGMgOo'));

Action creators

reduxifyServices returns an object with the shape:

{
  messages: { // For the Feathers service with path /messages.
    // action creators
    create(data, params) {}, // Action creator for app.services('messages').create(data, params)
    update(id, data, params) {},
    patch(id, data, params) {},
    remove(id, params) {},
    find(params) {},
    get(id, params) {},
    store(object) {}, // Interface for realtime replication.
    reset() {}, // Reinitializes store for this service.
    // reducer
    reducer() {}, // Reducers handling actions MESSAGES_CREATE_PENDING, _FULFILLED, and _REJECTED.
  },
  users: { ... },
}

Service calls can be dispatched by:

dispatch(services.messages.create(data, params));

Shape of the store

The usage example code produces a Redux state with the shape:

state = {
  messages: {
    isLoading: boolean, // If get or find have started
    isSaving: boolean, // If update, patch or remove have started
    isFinished: boolean, // If last call finished successfully
    isError: Feathers error, // If last call was unsuccessful
    data: hook.result, // Results from other than a find call
    queryResult: hook.result, // Results from a find call. May be paginated.
  },
  users: { ... },
};

If integrating with feathers-offline-realtime-immutable, the state will be decorated with these additional properties:

state = {
  messages: {
    store: {
      connected: boolean, // If replication engine still listening for Feathers service events
      last: { // Read https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers-offline-realtime#event-information.
        action: string, // Replication action.
        eventName: string, // Feathers service event name. e.g. created
        records: object, // Feathers service event record.
      },
      records: [ objects ], // Sorted near realtime contents of remote service
    },
  },
  users: { ... },
}

Replication Engine Integration

const Realtime = require('feathers-offline-realtime-immutable');
const messages = feathersClient.service('/messages');

const messagesRealtime = new Realtime(messages, { subscriber: (records, last) => {
  store.dispatch(services.messages.store({ connected: messagesRealtime.connected, last, records }));
} });

Why Immutable?

Immutable objects allow for shallow equality checking.

If you're using React to render your application, you can increase performance by utilizing a shallow comparison (as opposed to a more expensive deep object comparison) in the shouldComponentUpdate lifecycle method. The behavior is the default when extending from React.PureComponent.

This implementation uses timm, which uses plain JS objects.

Acknowledgements

• feathers-redux was our inspiration.

License

MIT