type-to-reducer

type-to-reducer

Create reducer functions based on an object keyed by action types

Why?

Pretty much the same as the handleActions function in https://github.com/acdlite/redux-actions

Differences being that this only exposes the one function and allows nesting - API suggested by https://github.com/pburtchaell/redux-promise-middleware/issues/35#issuecomment-164650859

Usage

npm install type-to-reducer --save

import typeToReducer from 'type-to-reducer'
import { GET, UPDATE } from 'app/actions/foo'

const initialState = {
  data: null,
  isPending: false,
  error: false
}

export const reducer = typeToReducer({
  [GET]: (state, action) => ({
    ...state,
    data: action.payload
  }),
  [UPDATE]: (state, action) => ({
    ...state,
    data: action.payload
  })
}, initialState)

Can also be used to group reducers by prefix.

import typeToReducer from 'type-to-reducer'
import { API_FETCH } from 'app/actions/bar'

const initialState = {
  data: null,
  isPending: false,
  error: false
}

export const reducer = typeToReducer({
  [ API_FETCH ]: {
    PENDING: () => ({
      ...initialState,
      isPending: true
    }),
    REJECTED: (state, action) => ({
      ...initialState,
      error: action.payload,
    }),
    FULFILLED: (state, action) => ({
      ...initialState,
      data: action.payload
    })
  }
}, initialState)

Custom Type Delimiter

You can add a custom type delimiter instead of the default '_'.

This will set it for every reducer you create after the custom delimiter is set, yes a dirty stateful function. This is for convenience so you can set it for your whole project up front and not to pollute the main function abstraction for rare settings.

import typeToReducer, {setTypeDelimiter} from 'type-to-reducer'
import { API_FETCH } from 'app/actions/bar'

const initialState = {
  data: null,
  isPending: false,
}

setTypeDelimiter('@_@')

export const reducer = typeToReducer({
  [ API_FETCH ]: {
    PENDING: () => ({
      ...initialState,
      isPending: true
    }),
  }
}, initialState)

// Then use the delimiter in your action type
reducer(someState, {
  type: API_FETCH + '@_@' + 'PENDING'
})

This function may change to something that will scale better such as setOptions(options) to support more settings if more pop up.