React Lot

A dead simple React store that can easily be updated and accessed from any React component. Built on top of Redux so the devTools extension can be used. Follows Redux's philosophy of never directly mutating state and always returning a fresh state on updates.

There's only two methods to know.

set({ username: didrio });
get('username');

Install

npm install --save react-lot

Use

To get started, wrap a React app with lot.Wrapper. An initial store object can optionally be passed in. Add devTools and set it to true to enable Redux DevTools.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import Main from './Main';
import lot from 'react-lot';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return <div><Main /></div>;
  }
}

const initial = { 
  first: 1, 
  second: 2 
};

render(
  <lot.Wrapper initial={initial} devTools={true}>
    <App />
  </lot.Wrapper>
  , document.querySelector('#root'));

Now from any React component, just import lot and use its get and set methods.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import lot from 'react-lot';

class Main extends Component {

  componentDidMount() {
    lot.set({ third: 3 });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <ul>
          <li>{lot.get('first')}</li>
          <li>{lot.get('second')}</li>
          <li>{lot.get('third')}</li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default Main;

An easy way to modify a property on a deeply nested object is to provide comma seperated strings that lead to the desired property, then finally passing in the new value as the last argument.

Let's say our initial store looked like this:

const initial = { 
  object1: {
    object2: {
      object3: {
        property: 'nah'
      }
    }
  }
 };

And then to modify it:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import lot from 'react-lot';

class Main extends Component {

  componentWillMount() {
    lot.set('object1', 'object2', 'object3', 'property', 'yah');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {lot.get('object1').object2.object3.property}
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default Main;

Nice work, you're a react-lot expert now!