try-defer
v0.16.3
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Composes a function that will try logic and accumulate failures to be retried at a deferred time.
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try-defer
Composes a function that will try logic and accumulate failures to be retried at a deferred time.
npm i -S try-defer
Why?
I built this library to solve the many issues surrounding server-side rendering of css (specifically within library projects for my use case). With this project, I can attempt to run a bunch of unknown code, and if it fails, serialize the failures to a string to be executed on the browser.
Usage
import tryDefer from 'try-defer'
const [ inBrowser, defer ] = tryDefer(() => typeof window === 'object')
const alert = inBrowser((...args) => window.alert(`ONLY RUN ON BROWSER => ${JSON.stringify(args)}`))
const setBG = inBrowser((color) => document.body.style.backgroundColor = color)
/** This may or may not work. If it is bypassed or causes an error, it will be accumulated in the replay event to be executed at a deferred time.
alert(1, 2, 3)
setBG('yellow')
alert('deffferrrrr')
alert('this is in browser')
setBG('blue')
// ...
/**
* replay
* reruns all of the failed calls in order.
* any failures will be repeated again on future replays.
*/
defer.replay()OR - if you want to have the replay embedded into the server rendered page and run on the client:
/**
* serialize
* serializes the replay event into a script tag that will be run when the client loads.
*/
const html = `<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
${defer.serialize()}
</head>
<body>
${content}
</body>
</html>OR - if you are in a React project attempting server rendering:
import React from 'react'
import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server'
import { createMemoryHistory, match, RouterContext } from 'react-router'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import { syncHistoryWithStore } from 'react-router-redux'
//....
router.use((req, res, next) => {
let memoryHistory = createMemoryHistory(req.path)
let store = configureStore(memoryHistory)
let history = syncHistoryWithStore(memoryHistory, store)
/* react router match history */
match({ history, routes, location: req.url }, (error, redirectLocation, renderProps) => {
const content = renderToString(<Provider store={store}><RouterContext {...renderProps} /></Provider>)
/** Returns a component that reruns the logic in a browser environment. */
const Replay = defer.reactReplay(React)
const html = `<!doctype html>
${renderToString((
<html>
<head>
<Replay />
</head>
<body>
{content}
</body>
</html>
)}`
res.send(html)
})
})