Redux Functions

A set of functions allow you to create action-creators, reducers, action-type faster and type-safer.

Installation

NPM

npm i redux-functions

Yarn

yarn add redux-functions

CDN

<!-- format https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/redux-functions@{{VERSION}}/umd/main.js -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/redux-functions@0.0.9/umd/main.js"></script>

How to Use

toType

In a large scale of redux application, there are tons of action types. It is always a nightmare for developers to think of an unique action name.

toType allows you to add a prefix for the action name, so it is easier to debug and manage.

For example

import { toType } from "redux-functions";

// create an action type generator
const type = toType("TABLE_TENNIS");

// export the actions type for later use
export const PING = type("PING"); // "TABLE_TENNIS::PING"
export const PONG = type("PONG"); // "TABLE_TENNIS::PONG"

toActionCreator

To create an action creator is very simple,

import { toActionCreator } from "redux-functions";

export const ping = toActionCreator("PING");
// In Typescript, you can also create a type-safe action creator
export const pong = toActionCreator<boolean>("PONG");

// to use it
ping() // { type: "PING" }
pong(true) // { type: "DELAY_PONG", payload: true };

Inspired by redux-toolkit, You can also use the action creator to verify an unknown action.

// In Javascript, using "=="
ping == { type: "PING" } // true
ping == { type: "PONG" } // false

// In Typescript
ping.test({ type: "PING" }) // true
ping.test({ type: "PONG" }) // false

Caveat

There is a caveat about the redux actions generated by redux-functions.

All the actions generated by toActionCreator will be in the format of

import type { Action } from "redux";
interface AppAction<T> extends Action<string>{
    payload: T;
}

toReducer

To create a reducer without boilerplate. toReducer takes two parameters, action type and default value, i.e. toReducer(action, defaultValue).

For example

import { toReducer } from "redux-functions";
import { combineReducers } from "redux";

const ping = toReducer("PING", false);
const pong = toReducer("PONG", false);

const reducers = combineReducers({ ping, pong });

Caveat

Unlike redux-toolkit's createReducer, toReducer only handle one single action for each generated reducer.

If you would like to have more customisation on the reducer handling, please check redux-toolkit.