Reduceless

Simple abstraction over Redux to make state management as easy as React's vanilla setState() but with advantages of Redux.

The idea is easy: you connect component to a slice of your Redux state to give this component full control over this part of the state. It can read from this state and write to it in React style with setState and replaceState. You don't need any custom reducers, actions or constants to do it. Just read state and write to it.

Don't worry you are still able to use Redux in the normal way. It's just set of helper to avoid boilerplate for simple actions.

Installation

npm install reduceless --save

How to use:

1.wrap your root reducer with wrapReducerWithSetGlobalState

import {wrapReducerWithSetGlobalState} from 'reduceless';

const reducer = wrapReducerWithSetGlobalState(
  // Your normal reducers are going here
  // combineReducers({
  //   reducer1,
  //   reducer2,
  // })
);

2.connect your component to a slice of your state

import {connectSlicedState} from 'reduceless';

@connectSlicedState('pages.blogs.data.activePost')
const PostForm = ({state, setState, replaceState}) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <input
        type="checkbox"
        checked={state.checked}
        onChange={e => setState({'checked': !state.checked})}/>
      <br/>
      value: {state.checked.toString()}
    </div>
  )
}

PostForm component will recieve part of your Redux state located at pages.blogs.data.activePost in state prop. Component can change it using setState(newState) and replaceState(newState) props. This path could even not exist. It will be created automatically when component will write to it.

3.[Optional] Use can use replaceStateByPath and setStateByPath action creators for advanced scenarios.

import {connectSlicedState} from 'reduceless';
import _ from 'lodash';

const Form = ({checked, setChecked}) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <input
        type="checkbox"
        checked={checked}
        onChange={e => setChecked({'checked': !state.checked})}/>
      <br/>
      value: {checked.toString()}
    </div>
  )
}

export default connect(
  (state, props) => ({
    checked: _.get(state, 'pages.blogs.data.activePost'),
  }),
  dispatch => ({
    setChecked: checked => dispatch(replaceStateByPath('pages.blogs.data.activePost', checked)),
  })
)(Form);

Still no actions, reducers or constants.

4.[Optional] use initialReducer // TODO

Basic API

###wrapReducerWithSetGlobalState(reducer) Wraps your reducer(probably at root level but you can use it in any level of your reducers tree) with another reducer that catches events sent by reduceless(SET_STATE_BY_PATH, REPLACE_STATE_BY_PATH).

###connectSlicedState(path)(component) Connects your component to a slice of your redux state located at path. Sends following props to the component:

1. state - slice of the state located at path. It doesn't matter what exaclty is stored there. It could be object, array, simple value. Actually there could be no such path in your state at all. In that case you will get state === undefined so you can use defaultProps to populate this prop.

2. setState(newState) – action (already wrapped in dispatch) that will merge slice of the state located at path with newState. If this path does not exist in your redux state it will be created. Calls setStateByPath under the hood.

3. replaceState(newState) – action (already wrapped in dispatch) that will replace slice of the state located at path with newState. If this path is does not exist in your redux state it will be created. Calls replaceStateByPath under the hood.

Advanced API

###setStateByPath(path, newState) Action creator that merges state located by path with newState.

dispatch(setStateByPath('posts.3.data', {title: 'new title'}))

replaceStateByPath(path, newState)

Action creator that merges state located by path with newState.

dispatch(replaceStateByPath('posts.3.data.title', 'new title'))