react-prepare-wrapper

a higher order component / wrapper for executing a task when a component mounts or receives props

Installation

npm install react-prepare-wrapper --save-dev

Usage

Here's a simple way to use this with the connect wrapper from react-redux to create a kind of 'smart container' that can auto-fetch missing state data:

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {connect} from 'react-redux';
import prepare from 'react-prepare-wrapper'

import {fetchThings} from 'actions/app'
import {selectThings} from 'selectors/app'
import {ThingsCard, LoadingSpinner} from 'components/app'

const mstp = state => ({
    things: selectThings(state)
})

const onProps = props => {
    const {things, dispatch} = props
    if(!things) {
        dispatch(fetchThings())
    }
}

@connect(mstp)
@prepare(onProps)
export default class ThingsContainer extends Component {

    render() {
        const {things} = this.props
        return (
            <div className="things">
                {things ?
                    <ThingsCard things={things} />
                    : <LoadingSpinner />
                }
            </div>
        );
    }
}

When a ThingsContainer is mounted with an empty global state, it dispatches an action to fetch things and meanwhile renders <LoadingSpinner/>. After things is successfully fetched and merged into the global state via a reducer, the component will be rerendered with <ThingsCard/>.

Dev Dependencies

• babel-cli: Babel command line.
• babel-core: Babel compiler core.
• babel-eslint: Custom parser for ESLint
• babel-preset-es2015: Babel preset for all es2015 plugins.
• babel-preset-react: Babel preset for all React plugins.
• babel-preset-stage-0: Babel preset for stage 0 plugins
• babel-register: babel require hook
• eslint: An AST-based pattern checker for JavaScript.
• eslint-config-rackt: Shareable eslint config for rackt repos
• eslint-plugin-react: React specific linting rules for ESLint
• react: React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• react-dom: React package for working with the DOM.
• rimraf: A deep deletion module for node (like rm -rf)

License

ISC