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[module-reaction] A beautifull and simple React modulization framework

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Introduction:

using React hooks is much popular to develop web projects recent days.
but for big and complex project, we find it's a bit hard to manage the app's store beautifully.
and it's a good practice to depart our app by business modules and keep them relative individual, also leave a way to allow different modules communicate with other modules under limited rules.
after several prjects' experience, we build up a modulization framework, and opened source as a npm-package. now I'm glad to introduce to you:

module-reaction

modulized redux store management framework, based on react-redux

install

  • via npm

      npm install module-reaction
    - via yarn
    


    shell
    yarn add module-reaction

    features

  • modulized state/store management

  • inject module-state's props to components easily(no more 'connect' call)

  • native async action process

  • integrate redux's action and reducer to make things atomization

  • simple apis

useage

  • first of all, import the

    
    from 'module-reaction', and use it as the wrapper of you root Component, like this:
    +
    
    ```typescript
      import { Provider } from 'module-reaction';
    
      ReactDOM.render(<Provider><App /></Provider>, 
     document.getElementById('root'));
    
  • go focus on your business , in large app project, we usually divide the whole application into businesses, so each business has its own model, it's a good rule that you should only modify the data of the business you belongs to, we call this 'modulize'. once you decided your modules, you can implemnts you ideas one by one or assign these modules to other guys. now let's imagine you hvae a module to go, let's begin the work with 'module-reaction' like this:

  • declare a moduleStore to store your business-module's data, like this:

    • ``` typescript export const MODULE_A = 'module_a'; export const mStoreA: ModuleStore = { module: MODULE_A, size: '2*2', count: 10, price: 9.9, infos: { madeIn: 'China', saleTo: 'anywhere' } }
  • optionally, you can call regStore manually or not

  • then, inject moduleStore's props into React.Component class by adding a decorator mapProp before the component-class's declaration. PS: when you use the mapProp decorator, the mentioned moduleStore will be reg automatically if it has not been registered.
    and if you are using ES5 or React.FC, you can call

    mapProp(moduleStore, ...props)(YourComponentClass | yourReactFC)

    just like the react-redux's connectmethod.
    codes below will inject mStoreA's ['size', 'price', 'count', 'infos'] prop to the Component PageA:
    +

      @mapProp(mStoreA, 'size', 'price', 'count', 'infos')
      export class PageA extends React.Component<KV, {}> {
        render() {
          return (
            <div>
            {this.props.size},
            {this.props.price * this.props.count},
            {this.props.infos.madeIn}
            </div>
          )
        }
    + and if you have called 'regStore' manually in other place:
    + ```
    
    typescript
      regStore(mStoreA);
    + then you can give the moduleName insdead of the moduleStore when use the 'mapProp' decorator, like this:
    +
    
    ```typescript
      @mapProp(MODULE_A, 'size', 'price', 'count', 'infos')
      export class PageA extends React.Component<KV, {}> {
        ...
      }
    
    • there's a sugar, if you want to inject all of the props of one moduleStore, you can code like this:
    • ``` typescript @mapProp(MODULE_A)//or @mapProp(mStoreA) export class PageA extends React.Component { ... }
    • if you want to inject more than one moduleStore to a Compoent, just: + typescript @mapProp(MODULE_A) @mapProp(MODULE_B, 'propxxx', 'p', 'sth') @mapProp(mStoreC, 'sss', 'sd', 'sth:sth2') export class PageA extends React.Component<KV, {}> { ... } + and have you noticed that there's a sth:sth2 above? sometimes, the prop's name of different moduleStore maybe the same, eg: both mStoreB and mStoreC has a prop named 'sth', when injected those two into one Component, you can use a : gamar to rename the injected prop. so, the above code will inject a 'sth2' prop to PageA and refers to 'mStoreC.sth' - during the runtime, please call [doAction](#apis) if you want to change the relative moduleStore's some props. for example, when click a button, change the 'count'. usually, you need to declare a moduleAction to do this, a moduleAction represents an integrated opreation to make changes to its relative moduleStore. here we go: + typescript export const increaseCountAction: MoudleAction = { module: MODULE_A, process: async (payload: KV, moduleState: ModuleStore) => { let count = moduleState.count; count++; return {count}; } } + ```typescript ... ... ... private increaseCnt = e => { doAction(increaseCountAction); }
    • you may have noticed that the 'increaseCountAction' process is very simple, it just return a KV which contains the props to be modified~ exactly, there's a sugar for these simple situation, if you won't do sth complicated in one moduleAction's process function, you are recommend to call the doAction method directly like this:
    • ``` typescript doAction(MODULE_A, {count: this.props.count+1});
    • in other words, if you pass a moduleName and a KV payload to the doAction method, the framework will merge the payload to the moduleStore of the specific moduleName. in fact, you only need to declare a moduleAction when you have to do sth complicate or fetch server datas, .etc
  • please see the completed example via the repository of this project https://github.com/swellee/reaction

apis

-


 register a moduleStore manually, if you call this method twice using a same moduleName, the early registered
  moduleStore will be replaced by the last one you given.
  given the fact that the

 ```mapProp```

 can automatically register a moduleStore only once, you are not recommend to call this method manually!
  -

 ```mapProp```

 this is a ES6+ (or typescript) decorator, you can use this to inject moduleStore's props to a Component by adding the decorator before the component-class's declaration. this method will register the given moduleStore automatically if it has not been registered.
    + in `mapProp`, it also called `regStore` to register moduleStore
    + in `regStore` it will register the ***clone*** of given moduleStore, not the original one, so if you want to reset the MODULE_A to the initial state, just call:
    `doAction(MODULE_A, mStoreA)`;
  -

 ```doAction```

 you need call this method if you want to modify some props of the specific moduleStore.
  -

 ```plusAction```

 this method is allowed only inside an moduleAction's process function, and used to insert another moduleAction closely after the current action's process finished.
  -

 ```doFunction```

 a sugar to call some method after the current action queue. \* pls notice: actions will be executed one by one in queue
    + ***Notice*** : all actions will be execute in queue(other words : one by one)!
    imagine that: you have declared `actionA, actionB, actionC, functionD, actionE, actionF`, and in actionB's process, you called `plusAction` like this:
    +

 ```typescript
        actionB: ModuleAction = {
        module: MODULE_B,
        process: async () => {
            ...
            plusAction(actionE)
            plusAction(actionF)
            ...
            // remember, each moduleAction's process need to return a KV obj
            return {someThing: 'someValue'}
        }
      }
    and in your business code:
    + ```

typescript
      doAction(actionA);
      doAction(actionB);
      doAction(actionC);
      doFunction(functionD);
    then the execute order is:`actionA->actionB->actionE->actionF->actionC->functionD`
    - and in `actionC`'s process function, you can get the latest data which is modified by `actionF` if you want.

  -

 ```Provider```

 the Provider wrapped with react-redux's Provider
  -

 ```reaction```

 a const object holding some default config,
  like `showLoading,hideLoading,defaultMaxProcessSeconds`
  -

 ```getGlobalState```

 return the snapshot of the current redux' store
  -

 ```getModuleState```

 return the snapshot of the current redux-store's some module
  -

 ```getModuleProp```

 return the snapshot of the current redux-store's some module's some prop
  -

 ```enableDevtools```

 enable the [Redux DevTools](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redux-devtools/lmhkpmbekcpmknklioeibfkpmmfibljd) extention of chrome

## interfaces
  -

 ```KV```

 sth key-value (alias for Object)
    +

 ```typescript
      interface KV {
        [k: string]: any
      }
  - ```

ModuleStore

``` the modulized store:
    + ```

typescript
      interface ModuleStore extends KV {
        module: string;
      }
  -

 ```ModuleAction```

 an action is a processor to deal with some datas and make the changes to the specific module.
    + 

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typescript
interface ModuleAction {
module: string;
name?: string;
maxProcessSeconds?: number;
process?: (payload: PAYLOAD_TYPE, moduleStore: MODULE_STORE) => Promise;
}
***
there's a name prop in ModuleAction, this prop helps you find the action easily in ReduxDevtools during development;
***
and the maxProcessSeconds prop tell the framework that allow this action's process to run not more than the given time(unit by seconds), once out of time, the framework will abondon its process result,and go to execute next moduleAction. the default value is 8s hold by reaction.defaultMaxProcessSeconds

tips

  • there're much more comments in the source code file
  • there're several means of usage examples in the source code project
  • also, there's a flutter-implements project here ## todo plan
  • provide a plugin system
  • provide a plugin to manage undo/redo

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