redux-act-classy

Redux Act Classy

Motivation

I came up with some of the ideas for this library while trudging through the action portion of the redux ecosystem.

I've found it cumbersome to deal with

• action creators
• action types
• accessing action data in reducers (esp. w/ type friendliness)
• async thunk actions that result in multiple concrete actions to record the current lifecycle stage of the async action (Start/Success/Fail/etc) for loading spinners etc

Each of these individually are not that bad, but taken as a whole I felt like there should be a simpler way to do these things.

Goals

Types are first class

With the growing popularity of typescript, it makes sense to provide a solution that improves developing in typescript as well as a javascript.

Simplistic usage

I want users to feel like this is the way actions were meant to be used.

Fully tested codebase

I work in a Test Driven Design environment, and I think it's important to bring that level of confident development to this library so that others can have confidence in using this library for their production environments.

Contributing

TODO: project setup instructions...

Currently I am doing most of this by myself. If you have thoughts, inspiration, feedback, or want to add a feature. Feel free to reach out or send a pull request!

Task List

• Could add a reducer that stores all lifecycle states: OnStart, etc for each Action. e.g. state.asyncActions[MyAction.TYPE].status. Multiple async actions of the same type (potentially with different data) may be going at the same time... (new DeleteJokeAction({id: 5}))

• Add tests to middleware

  • test that functions are not passed when deconstructing {...action}

• Add tests to helper functions

• Bug: Fix perform return types that are arrays. only able to determine they are any[] atm

• perform takes a getState: () => T T should be the defined top level state interface for users projects... How can we make this generic (without passing it into EACH new ClassyAction)...