react-cached-handler

react-cached-handler is a tiny library that passes parameters to your event handlers using arrow functions without impacting rendering performance of components

Features

• Named handlers
• Handle events by arrow functions
• Access to the key, custom arguments and the original event
• Component rendering performace
• Custom context for handlers

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Package Installation

$ npm install react-cached-handler

How to use it?

You define a handler by calling createHandler. The first parameter is the context of your handler function that is optional

handler = createHandler(this)`

Now you can set your arrow function in events. The first argument must be a key.

<TextField
                label="Title"
                onBlur={this.handler('title', (fieldName, event)=> {} )}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

Parameters of the arrow function :

• fieldName : The first parameter of the arrow function is allways the key you have specified
• event : The second parameter is the original event. So you can access the value by event.target.value

You can pass even more arguments but the event argument is always the last one :

onBlur={this.handler('title', 'a1', 'a2', (fieldName, p1, p2, event)=> { console.log(p1) } )}

Note : Internally it caches your arrow functions by the specified key, no need to be worried about rerendering!

Example 1

EditPost Component that handles named events via a default handler function

import createHandler from 'react-cached-handler';

class EditPost extends React.PureComponent {

    handler = createHandler(this, (fieldName, e) => { console.log(e.target.value) } );

    render() {
        return <div>
        
            <TextField
                label="Title"
                onBlur={this.handler('title')}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

            <TextField
                label="Author Name"
                onBlur={this.handler('authorName')}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

            <TextField
                label="Post Content"
                onBlur={this.handler('postContent')}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

            <TextField
                label="Post Content"
                onBlur={this.handler('postContent' )}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

        </div>
    }
}

• You could also override the default handler function

            <TextField
                label="Post Content"
                onBlur={this.handler('postContent', (fieldName, e) => { console.log('from custom handler function')} )}
                defaultValue = "default value" />

Example 2

PostMenu Component that handles selecting tags and posts

import React from 'react';
import createHandler from 'react-cached-handler';

class PostMenu extends React.PureComponent {

    postSelectHandler = createHandler(this);
    tagSelectHandler = createHandler(this);

    render() {
        return <div>
            {
                this.props.posts.map(post =>
                    <Post key={post.id}
                        onClick={this.postSelectHandler(post.id, (postId) => { console.log(postId) })}
                    />)
            }

            {
                this.props.tags.map(tag =>
                    <Tag key={tag}
                        onClick={this.tagSelectHandler(tag, (tag) => { console.log(tag) })}
                    />)
            }
    

        </div>
    }
}

Example 3

You can also pass more objects as arguments

handlePostClick = (postId, title, author) => {
    console.log(author.name)
}

.
.

<Post key={post.id}
    onClick={this.handler(post.id, post.Title, post.Author, this.handlePostClick)}
/>

Example 4

The original event object is passed as last argument

handlePostClick = (postId, title, author, e) => {
    console.log(e.target)
}

.
.

<Post key={post.id}
    onClick={this.handler(post.id, post.Title, post.Author, this.handlePostClick)}
/>

Example 5

It's ok if you don't assign the key. It uses 'default' for the key

firstNameChangeHandler = createHandler();

.
.

<TextField onChange={this.firstNameChangeHandler(e => {
        console.log(e.target.value);
    })}
/>

Or

firstNameChangeHandler = createHandler(e => {
    console.log(e.target.value);
});

.
.

<TextField onChange={this.firstNameChangeHandler()}
/>