redux-graphql-subscriptions
A Redux middleware for handling GraphQL subscriptions.
This repo leverages subscriptions-transport-ws which is the awesome work of the Apollo guys over here and is intended to be coupled with a backend server that also uses subscriptions-transport-ws.
This is totally work in progress so all comment, critique help welcomed!
Getting Started
- Import the package
npm install --save redux-graphql-subscriptions
- Instantiate the middleware, passing in the url of your websocket server.
- Pass the middleware instance into your redux store.
import { createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware } from 'redux'
import reducers from 'ducks'
import createGraphQLSubscriptionsMiddleware from 'redux-graphql-subscriptions'
const graphQLSubscriptionsMiddleware = createGraphQLSubscriptionsMiddleware('ws://localhost:8001/subscriptions')
let todoApp = combineReducers(reducers)
let store = createStore(
todoApp,
applyMiddleware(logger, graphQLSubscriptionsMiddleware)
)
- Import the subscribe and unsubscribe functions and use them in action creators.
import { subscribe, unsubscribe } from 'redux-graphql-subscriptions'
export const subscribeToNewComments = () => subscribe({ ...newComment, { channel: 'one' } })
export const unsubscribeFromNewComments = () => unsubscribe('one')
// Subscription object
const newComment = {
query: newCommentSubscription,
success: receivedNewComment,
failure: receivedNewCommentWithErrors,
}
- You can use those action creators in your lifecycle hooks to subscribe and unsubscribe from subscriptions that a component is dependent upon like this...
componentWillMount() {
this.props.subscribeToNewComments()
this.props.fetchingCommentHistory()
}
componentWillUnMount() {
this.props.unsubscribeFromNewComments()
}
API
createGraphQLSubscriptionsMiddleware(url, options)
url: string
: url that the client will connect to, starts withws://
orwss://
options?: Object
: optional, object to modify default client behaviortimeout?: number
: how long the client should wait in ms for a keep-alive message from the server (default 10000 ms), this parameter is ignored if the server does not send keep-alive messages. This will also be used to calculate the max connection time per connect/reconnectlazy?: boolean
: use to set lazy mode - connects only when first subscription created, and delay the socket initializationconnectionParams?: Object | Function
: object that will be available as first argument ofonConnect
(in server side), if passed a function - it will call it and send the return valuereconnect?: boolean
: automatic reconnect in case of connection errorreconnectionAttempts?: number
: how many reconnect attemptsconnectionCallback?: (error) => {}
: optional, callback that called after the first init message, with the error (if there is one)
subscribe(subscription)
subscription: Object
: the required fields for a subscriptionquery: string
: GraphQL subscriptionvariables?: Object
: GraphQL subscription variables, requireschannel
value to be set to denote the channel to listen to.success: function
: The action creator to be dispatched when the subscription response contains no errorsfailure: function
: The action creator to be dispatched when the subscription response does contain errors
unsubscribe(id)
channel: string
: channel to unsubscribe from