redux-api-petitioner

Simple client-agnostic Redux API middleware.

Installation

npm i -S redux-api-petitioner

How it works

redux-api-petitioner allows you to create AJAX requests to your API in a declarative way. It accepts your client instance and works with it through the redux actions. I.e. you create requests via redux actions.

Quick usage example

// your action creator
import { generateReqTypes } from 'redux-api-petitioner';
import { USERS_LIST } from 'constants';

// is meant you have enabled a redux-thunk middleware
export const fetchUsers = () => dispatch => 
 dispatch({
    [GET]: {
      // this will create an array [USERS_LIST_REQUEST, USERS_LIST_SUCCESS, USERS_LIST_FAILURE] for the middleware
      actions: generateReqTypes(USERS_LIST),
      request: {
        url: '/api/v1/users'
      }
    }
  });

Middleware expects to receive three actions, which will be fired during the dispatched action (request) handling:

• Before the request: USERS_LIST_REQUEST
• Request success: USERS_LIST_SUCCESS
• Request error: USERS_LIST_FAILURE

It allows handling each phase of the request in a declarative way using your reducer.

Usage

redux-api-petitioner supports any API client, which conforms to the next requirement: your API library should provide the API with each request type in the lower case: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE.

Every method should return a promise.

For instance, Axios suits perfectly for it.

Connection to the redux store

Full example with the redux store:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux';
import apiMiddleware from 'redux-api-petitioner';

import reducers from './reducers';
import myApiClient from './myApiClient';

export default function configureStore(initialState = {}) {
  const middlewares = [
    apiMiddleware(
      apiClient,
      // response success mapper
      resp => resp.data,
      // response error mapper
      resp => resp.data
    ),
  ];

  const enhancers = [applyMiddleware(...middlewares)];

  const store = createStore(
    reducers,
    initialState,
    compose(...enhancers),
  );

  return store;
}

API

apiMiddleware: (apiClient:Object, responseMapper:Function, errorMapper:Function)

import apiMiddleware from 'redux-api-petitioner';

apiClient - your API client instance

responseMapper - successful request-response mapper to return the only data response back to the reducer

errorMapper - bad request response mapper to provide only error back to your reducer

reqMethods>Object

import { reqMethods } from 'redux-api-petitioner';

const { HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE } = reqMethods;

exports ES6 symbols for each request type: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE.

generateActions: (actionType:String)

This helper function generates an array of three actions, required for the middleware.

import { generateActions } from 'redux-api-petitioner';

// In your action creator
 dispatch({
    [GET]: {
      // this will produce an array [USERS_LIST_REQUEST, USERS_LIST_SUCCESS, USERS_LIST_FAILURE] for the middleware
      actions: generateReqTypes(USERS_LIST),
      request: {
        url: '/api/v1/users'
      }
    }
  });