react-async-await

Async component that waits on promises to resolve!

Motivation

Creating a promise is a synchronous action. If you hold a reference to a promise, you can eventually get the future value that it resolves to. Calling setState asynchronously in a component can cause a lot of headaches because of race conditions. The promise could still be in a pending state when the component unmounts or the props change. The Async component allows you to never worry about these race conditions and enables you to write your asynchronous react code as if it was synchronous.

Install

yarn add react-async-await react

ReactAsyncAwait

• ReactAsyncAwait
  • ~Async ⇒ ReactElement
  • ~createLoader(loader, [resolver]) ⇒ ReactComponent

ReactAsyncAwait~Async ⇒ ReactElement

Component that takes a promise and injects the render callback with the resolved value.

Kind: inner property of ReactAsyncAwait
Extends: ReactComponent

Param	Type	Description
props	object
[props.await]	*
[props.waiting]	function	map promise to value
[props.then]	function	map result to value
[props.catch]	function	map error to value (default throws error)
[props.children]	function	render callback

Example

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { Async } from "react-async-await";
 
class LoadUser extends React.Component {
  componentWillMount() {
    this.setState({
      error: undefined,
      promise: undefined
    });
  }
 
  componentDidMount() {
    this.setState({
      promise: fetch(`/api/users/${this.props.id}`).then(r => r.json())
    });
  }
 
  componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
    if (this.props.id !== nextProps.id) {
      this.setState({
        error: undefined,
        promise: fetch(`/api/users/${nextProps.id}`).then(r => r.json())
      });
    }
  }
 
  componentDidCatch(error) {
    this.setState({ error });
  }
 
  render() {
    return this.state.error ? (
      <div>Uncaught promise rejection: {this.state.error.message}</div>
    ) : (
      <Async await={this.state.promise}>{this.props.children}</Async>
    );
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(
  <LoadUser id={1}>
    {user =>
      typeof user === undefined ? (
        <div>Loading...</div>
      ) : (
        <h1>Hello {user.name}!</h1>
      )
    }
  </LoadUser>,
  document.getElementById("root")
);

ReactAsyncAwait~createLoader(loader, [resolver]) ⇒ ReactComponent

Create a wrapper component around Async that maps props to a promise when the component mounts.

Kind: inner method of ReactAsyncAwait

Param	Type	Description
loader	function	loader maps props to a promise
[resolver]	function	resolver maps props to a key

Example

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { createLoader } from "react-async-await";
 
const LoadUser = createLoader(
  props => fetch(`/api/users/${props.id}`).then(r => r.json()),
  props => props.id // when key changes the loader is called again
);
 
ReactDOM.render(
  <LoadUser id={1}>
    {user =>
      typeof user === undefined ? (
        <div>Loading...</div>
      ) : (
        <h1>Hello {user.name}!</h1>
      )
    }
  </LoadUser>,
  document.getElementById("root")
);

Example (memoized loader)

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { createLoader } from "react-async-await";
// https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.5#memoize
import memoize from "lodash/memoize";
 
const loader = memoize(
  props => fetch(`/api/users/${props.id}`).then(r => r.json()),
  props => props.id // key is used to resolve to cached value
);
 
const LoadUser = createLoader(
  loader,
  props => props.id // when key changes the loader is called again
);
 
ReactDOM.render(
  <LoadUser id={1}>
    {user =>
      typeof user === undefined ? (
        <div>Loading...</div>
      ) : (
        <h1>Hello {user.name}!</h1>
      )
    }
  </LoadUser>,
  document.getElementById("root")
);