Reshort - looking for opinions and contributors!

Robson Porto — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:03:47 +0000

Reshort - write less in your action creators!

Intro

Hi, everyone! I developed this simple little lib (my first lib!) to help me reduce some repetition in my action creators. I have some ideas of new implementations and I just want to see if anyone is interested in this at all or find this project interesting and useful. If you have any constructive critiques I would be very pleased to hear it. If you have some interest in the project and can help, it would be awesome!

The problem:

Let's say that I want to fetch a list of books. Using redux, I have to create three actions creators:

the first one is the "REQUEST";
the second one is the "SUCCESS";
the third one is the "FAIL".

Now let's say that I want to fetch a list of authors. Or a list of users. Or a list of bookmarks... This pattern of REQUEST-SUCCESS-FAIL can become very repetitive and verbose.

The solution

Using reshort you can create one "complete action creator" using one line, instead of three. Like so:

import reshort from "reshort";

const productsActions = reshort("Products");

productsActions("request")
// {
//   type: "GET_PRODUCTS"
// }

productsActions("success", {test: 123})
// {
//   type: "GET_PRODUCTS_SUCCESSFUL",
//   payload: { test: 123 }
// }

productsActions("fail", {test: "error"})
// {
//   type: "GET_PRODUCTS_FAILURE",
//   payload: { test: "error" }
// }

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Reshort - looking for opinions and contributors!

Intro

The problem:

The solution