/react-async-renderer

Utility for rendering a loading component while waiting for an asynchronous operation to complete

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

React Async Renderer

Quality Gate Status

Utilities for rendering JSX with respect to one or more asynchronous operations.

Installation

npm install --save @mfbtech/react-async-renderer

Usage

At the core of this package is createAsyncRenderer, which renders specific JSX for a given asynchronous operation.

function useMyData() {
  // Setup status state to reflect the state of your long running process
  const [status, setStatus] = useState<AsyncRequestStatus>(AsyncRequestStatusEnum.INIT)
  // Setup error state for any errors associated with your long running process
  const [error, setError] = useState<null | string>(null)
  // Setup data state for any data returned from your long running process
  const [data, setData] = useState<null | string>(null)

  // Logic to kick off a request for data and update local state respectively...

  return {
    status,
    error,
    data
  }
}

function MyDataComponent() {
  const myData = useMyData()
  // Create a renderer for your long running process
  const loadingRenderer = createAsyncRenderer({
    status: myData.status,
    error: myData.error,
    onCompletedSuccessfullyArgs: myData.data
  })

  return loadingRenderer(
    // Render the component with the validated data
    myValidatedData => (
      <div>
        <h1>My Data</h1>
        {myValidatedData}
      </div>
    ), 
    // Optional args that specify UI for specific states in the async operation
    {
      onCompletedWithError: <p>An error has occurred while fetching the data.</p>,
      onLoading: <p>Data is loading...</p>
      onInit: <p>Waiting for the data to be requested.</p>
  })
}

You can also use the AsyncUiModel with createAsyncUiModelRenderer and composeAsyncUiModel to simplify the code used in the consumer component.

function useMyDataComponentUiModel() {
  const myData = useMyData()
  return composeAsyncUiModel(
    myData.data,
    myData.status,
    myData.error ?? ""
  )
}

function MyDataComponent() {
  const uiModel = useMyDataComponentUiModel()
  const loadingRenderer = createAsyncUiModelRenderer(uiModel)

  return loadingRenderer(
    myValidatedData => (
      <div>
        <h1>My Data</h1>
        {myValidatedData}
      </div>
  ))
}

These other utility functions can be used to simplify the logic around createAsyncRenderer:

  • rtkqResultsToStatusError: Used specifically for converting RTK Query Results to an asynchronous request object that can be used with createAsyncRenderer.
  • getCascadedAsyncState: Reduces a chain of asynchronous request objects down one asynchronous request object.
  • getOptimisticAsyncLoadState: Converts its arguments into an optimistic asynchronous request object such that if the arguments indicate a pending asynchronous request and a fulfilled asynchronous request, then the result is a fulfilled asynchronous request object.

Checkout the example application.

License

MIT License

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