Normal Store

Utilities to transform data with unique identifiers to and from a normalized data store. All data is treated as immutable, new data structures are returned when updating.

Why?

Often when dealing with data in a single-page-application (SPA) it is useful to represent collections of resources in a way that is both easy to query and to update.

With normal-store you can convert the resources served by your backend into a format similar to an indexed database.

const resources = [{ id: 'a' }, { id: 'b' }];

const normalized = normalize(resources); // { allKeys: ['a', 'b'], byKey: { a: { id: 'a' }, b: { id: 'b' } }}

const denormalized = denormalize(normalized); // [{ id: 'a' }, { id: 'b' }]

Example

import axios from 'axios';
import { normalize, getOne, patchOne, removeOne } from 'normal-store';

const products = await axios.get('/products').then(res => res.data);

let productStore = normalize(products);

const decrementStock = (productID) => {
  productStore = patchOne(productStore, productID, ({ stock }) => ({ stock: stock - 1 }));
};

const removeProduct = (productID) => {
  productStore = removeOne(productStore, productID);
};

Installation

To use normal-store, install it as a dependency:

# If you use npm:
npm install normal-store

# Or if you use Yarn:
yarn add normal-store

This assumes that you’re using a package manager such as npm.

License

ISC