Show: A state management library for React Server Components (RSC) on Next.js 13

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A state management library for React Server Components (RSC) on Next.js 13. A new invention to replace Recoil. This state can be read from any Server-component, and updates will result in a re-render of all components.

nrstate

State for React Server Components (RSC) on Next.js

N: Next.js

R: React Server Components

State

Features

✨ Next.js 13 support, for RSC

Read/Write state also works on Client-component.
Read state also works on Server-component.

Quick start

nrstate https://www.npmjs.com/package/nrstate

npm i nrstate

nrstate-client https://www.npmjs.com/package/nrstate-client

npm i nrstate-client

You can play with the example code here.

https://github.com/vteacher-online/nrstate-demo

Server and Client Components Observation

Implement persistence, read or write by observing all state changes across your page, without impairing code-splitting.

PageState

A PageState represents a state of Page-component.

Client-component

PageState can be read and write from any Client-component.
Server-component

PageState can be read from any Server-component.

ex.

PageStateDemo.tsx

export const pathDemo = '/demo';

export type PageStateDemo = {
  a: string;
  d: string;
};

export const initialPageStateDemo = { a: '', d: 'asc' } as PageStateDemo;

PageStateProvider

Components that use nrstate need <PageStateProvider> to appear somewhere in the parent tree. A good place to put this is in your root component.

Make the "page" Server-component.

( Do not write "use client" )

page.tsx

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <PageStateProvider
      current={currentPageState<PageStateDemo>(
        initialPageStateDemo,
        pathDemo,
      )}
    >
      <></>
    </PageStateProvider>
  );
}

Read PageState

Client component

'use client';

export default function ClientComponent() {
  const [pageState, setPageState] = usePageState<PageStateDemo>();
  const { a, d } = pageState;

  return (
    <>
      a={a}, d={d}
    </>
  );
}

Server component

export default async function ServerComponent() {
  const pageState = getPageState<PageStateDemo>(initialPageStateDemo, pathDemo);
  const { a, d } = pageState;

  return (
    <>
      a={a}, d={d}
    </>
  );
}

Write PageState

Client-component can use this.
PageState updates will result in a re-render of all components subscribed to that Page-component.

'use client';

export default function ClientComponentInput() {
  const [pageState, setPageState] = usePageState<PageStateDemo>();
  const { a } = pageState;
  return (
    <input type="text" onChange={(e) => {
      setPageState({
          ...pageState,
          a: e.target.value,
        }, pathDemo);
      }}
    />
  );
}