mehdux

mehdux

Just another tiny, simple state machine

• Easy to grasp API
• Tiny: 577 bytes gzipped
• Small React and Preact integrations (~750 bytes gzipped)
• WordArt logo

Motivation

Nobody thinks the JS community needs another state management library, so I made one to spite you all.

Usage

npm install mehdux

Initializing mehdux

import { stateManager } from 'mehdux'

const initialState = {
  someValue: 'My value'
}

const actions = {
  // ...actions
}

const store = stateManager(initialState, actions)

Creating and using actions

The actions you create should be a function that takes the state and returns a function returning the new state.

const add = state => value => ({
  ...state,
  value: state.value + value
})

// or without arrow functions
const subtract = function(state) {
  return function(value) {
    return {
      ...state,
      value: state.value - value
    }
  }
}

const actions = { increment, decrement }

Mehdux transforms the actions you pass the store. Using the actions simply looks like this:

store.actions.add(10)
store.actions.subtract(20)

Subscribe to state changes

store.connect()(console.log)

store.actions.setValue('A cooler value')
// logs { someValue: 'A cooler Value' }

To subscribe to changes in certain parts of the state tree you can pass a function as the first argument to the connect-function. This is similiar to how you map state to props in react-redux.

const mapState = state => ({
  interesting: state.something
})

store.connect(mapState)(console.log)

store.actions.setSomething('This is interesting')
// logs { interesting: 'This is interesting' }

Usage with other frameworks

Mehdux has built-in integrations with react and preact.

Simply import the connect-function, pass it the store you have already created and pass your component to the returning function.

import { connect } from 'mehdux/react' // or 'mehdux/preact

const SomeComponent = ({ myValue }) => <h1>{myValue}</h1>

export default connect(store)(SomeComponent)
// Some component has access the whole state and all the actions in the store

Listening to just certain parts of the state tree

Often you only care about a few parts of your state tree in a component. By only passing in those properties you will improve the performance of your application.

To achieve this you want to create a mapActionsToProps-function. This function gets passed the entire state and should return an object containing the properties you care about. Pass this as the second argument to the connect-function.

Doing this is optional and you can pass in nothing or null, but it is strongly encouraged.

import { connect } from 'mehdux/react' // or 'mehdux/preact

const SomeComponent = ({ myValue }) => <h1>{myValue}</h1>

function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return {
    myValue: state.something.i.care.about
  }
}

export default connect(store, mapStateToProps)(SomeComponent)
// Some component has access to myValue and all the actions in the store

Passing in certain actions

Similarly you can use a mapActionsToProps-function to only pass the actions you care about to your component.

This function gets passed all the actions in the store and should return an object containing the actions you care about. Pass this as the third argument to the connect-function.

import { connect } from 'mehdux/react' // or 'mehdux/preact'

const SomeComponent = ({ myValue }) => <h1>{myValue}</h1>

function mapActionsToProps(actions) {
  return {
    setName: actions.setName,
    setUpperCaseName: (value) => actions.setName(value.toUpperCase())
  }
}

export default connect(store, null, mapActionsToProps)(SomeComponent)

/*
Some component has access to the whole state tree
and the setName and setUpperCaseName functions
*/

Dispatching async thunk-like actions

Mehdux has support for dispatching actions within actions. All actions you create also gets passed a dispatch-function.

To dispatch simply pass the name of the action (the object property) as the first argument. Subsequent arguments gets passed to the action.

const actions = {
  setName: state => {
    return value => ({
      ...state,
      someValue: value
    })
  },
  fetchAndSetName: async (state, dispatch) => {
    const res = await fetch('https://myapi.com/v0')
    const data = await res.json()
    dispatch('setName', data.name)
  }
}

License

MIT.