Vandux

So you want a Redux solution for components, but you have to deal with server rendered DOM that some Headed CMS spat out?

Here is an ES6 Pub/Sub pattern with a State Machine pattern combined with Reducers for said situation.

Would I recommend using this over something like React on the server and client? Nope, I would not.

What this will work well for, is those cases when you do not have a React server render, still need SEO compliance, and want predictable/testable state management.

Demo

https://benbowes.github.io/vandux/dist/?vandux-debug

Codepen example

https://codepen.io/benbowes/pen/RxrWBE

Getting started

npm install -D vandux or yarn add vandux

Then connect your html with a Vandux store. A full example can be found in here: https://github.com/benbowes/vandux/tree/master/src/examples

Note that Vandux is not currently intended to be a global store, it is intended to be used at a component/module level. Providing your components with the ability to show you what happened when. You can have several Vandux stores, all working independently.

A Vandux code example

Some html you'd like to "connect" with a Vandux store

<div class="wrapper" data-vx="componentA">
  <p>Name: <span data-vx="componentA__name"></p>
  <p>Title: <span data-vx="componentA__title"></p>

  <p><input type="text" data-vx="componentA__update-name" placeholder="Alter 'Name'"></input></p>
  <p><input type="text" data-vx="componentA__update-title" placeholder="Alter 'Title'"></input></p>
</div>

Assuming this folder structure for componentA ...

- componentA/
  - reducer.js
  - render.js
  - index.js

Your entry file

import componentA from './componentA';

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  componentA({ name: '', title: '' }); // Pass in initial state
});

componentA/index.js

/**
* Component setup function. Connects the html component with the store.
* Initial state is passed in to the component. When the component * is connected it will render with it's initial state automatically with an `INIT` action.
*/
import { createStore } from 'vandux';
import reducer from './reducer';
import render from './render';


// Creates a relationship between event listeners and the store
function addListeners(el, store) {
  el.querySelector('[data-vx=componentA__update-name]').addEventListener('keyup', e =>
    store.publish('UPDATE_NAME', { name: e.target.value }));

  el.querySelector('[data-vx=componentA__update-title]').addEventListener('keyup', e =>
    store.publish('UPDATE_TITLE', { name: e.target.value }));
}

// Connect HTML component with store
export default (initialState) => {
  const el = document.querySelector('[data-vx="componentA"]');

  const store = createStore({ reducer, initialState }).connect([
    'UPDATE_NAME',
    'UPDATE_TITLE'
  ], el, render);

  addListeners(el, store);
};

componentA/reducer.js

export default function reducer(state = {}, action) {
  switch (action.type) {

    case 'UPDATE_NAME':
      return { ...state, name: action.data.name };

    case 'UPDATE_TITLE':
      return { ...state, title: action.data.title };

    default: return state;
  }
}

componentA/render.js

let $name;
let $title;

// render function - perform DOM manipulations in here.
export default function render(state, el, event) {
  $name = $name || el.querySelector('[data-vx=componentA__name]');
  $title = $title || el.querySelector('[data-vx=componentA__title]');

  // Add data to the DOM
  $title.textContent = state.title;
  $name.textContent = state.name;
}

Debug mode

Add the query param ?vandux-debug=true to your URL to see this kind of output in your browser console. It will show you what happened when, helping you debug race conditions.

wrapper,componentB INIT {name: "", title: ""}
wrapper,componentB UPDATE_NAME {name: "a", title: ""}}
wrapper,componentB UPDATE_NAME {name: "aa", title: ""}
wrapper,componentB UPDATE_NAME {name: "aaa", title: ""}

Note the first items are the values of the attributes on the html component - so you can identify which component published the event.