redux-first-history

Redux First History - Make Redux 100% SINGLE-AND-ONLY source of truth!

Redux history binding for

react-router
@reach/router
wouter
mix react-router - @reach/router - wouter in the same app!! Demo : https://wy5qw1125l.codesandbox.io/ (react-router v5) https://uccuw.csb.app/ (react-router v6)

Compatible with immer - redux-immer - redux-immutable.

🎉 A smaller, faster, optionated, issue-free alternative to connected-react-router

Main Goal

Use whatever you like. History will just work as it should.

//react-router v5 - v6
useLocation() === state.router.location

//react-router v5
this.props.history.location === state.router.location
this.props.location === state.router.location
withRouter.props.location === state.router.location

//react-router v4
this.context.router.history.location === state.router.location
this.context.route.location === state.router.location

//@reach/router
this.props.location === state.router.location

//wouter - pathname
useLocation()[0] === state.router.location.pathname

You can mix redux, redux-saga, react-router, @reach/router & wouter without any synchronization issue!
Why? Because there is no synchronization at all! There is only one history: reduxHistory!

one way data-flow
one unique source of truth
no more location issue!

Demo (react-router v5) : https://wy5qw1125l.codesandbox.io/ src: https://codesandbox.io/s/wy5qw1125l

Demo (react-router v6) : https://uccuw.csb.app/ src: https://codesandbox.io/s/redux-first-history-demo-rr6-uccuw

Main features

100% one source of truth (store)
No syncronization depending on rendering lifecicle (ConnectedRouter)
No React dependency (we want history to be always in store!)
100% one-way data flow (only dispatch actions!)
improve React shallowCompare as there is only one "location"
support react-router v4 / v5 / v6
support @reach/router 1.x
support wouter 2.x
support mix react-router, @reach/router & wouter in the same app!
fast migration from existing project, with same LOCATION_CHANGE and push actions (taken from RRR)
handle Redux Travelling from devTools (that's a non sense in production, but at the end of the day this decision it's up to you ...)

Installation

Using npm:

$ npm install --save redux-first-history

Or yarn:

$ yarn add redux-first-history

Usage

store.js

import { createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware } from "redux";
import { composeWithDevTools } from "redux-devtools-extension";
import { createReduxHistoryContext, reachify } from "redux-first-history";
import { createWouterHook } from "redux-first-history/wouter";
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'history';

const { createReduxHistory, routerMiddleware, routerReducer } = createReduxHistoryContext({ 
  history: createBrowserHistory(),
  //other options if needed 
});

export const store = createStore(
  combineReducers({
    router: routerReducer
    //... reducers //your reducers!
  }),
  composeWithDevTools(
    applyMiddleware(routerMiddleware)
  )
);

export const history = createReduxHistory(store);
//if you use @reach/router 
export const reachHistory = reachify(history);
//if you use wouter
export const wouterUseLocation = createWouterHook(history);

store.js (with @reduxjs/toolkit)

import { combineReducers } from "redux";
import { configureStore } from "@reduxjs/toolkit";
import { createReduxHistoryContext, reachify } from "redux-first-history";
import { createBrowserHistory } from "history";

const {
  createReduxHistory,
  routerMiddleware,
  routerReducer
} = createReduxHistoryContext({ history: createBrowserHistory() });

export const store = configureStore({
  reducer: combineReducers({
    router: routerReducer
  }),
  middleware: [routerMiddleware]
});

export const history = createReduxHistory(store);

app.js

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Provider, connect } from "react-redux";
import { Router } from "react-router-dom";
import { store, history } from "./store";

const App = () => (
      <Provider store={store}>
        <Router history={history}>
        //.....
        </Router>
      </Provider>
    );

export default App;

app.js (react-router v6)

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Provider, connect } from "react-redux";
import { HistoryRouter as Router } from "redux-first-history/rr6";
import { store, history } from "./store";

const App = () => (
      <Provider store={store}>
        <Router history={history}>
        //.....
        </Router>
      </Provider>
    );

export default App;

just simple Router with no more ConnectedRouter!
use push action creator from redux-first-history if you need to dispatch location from saga or connected components.
Probably, you already did it with react-router-redux or connected-react-router (in this case you have only to replace the import!)

Abstract

While working with relatively large projects, it's quite common to use both redux and react-router.

So you may have components that take location from store, others that take location from router context, and others from withRouter HOC.

This sometimes could generate sync issue, due to the fact that many components are updated at different time. In addition, React shallowCompare rendering optimization will not work as it should.

With redux-first-history, you can mix components that get history from wherever, they will always be tunneled to state.router.location !

Options

export const createReduxHistoryContext = ({
  history, 
  routerReducerKey = 'router', 
  reduxTravelling = false, 
  selectRouterState = null,
  savePreviousLocations = 0,
  batch = null,
  reachGlobalHistory = null
})

key	optional	description
history	no	The `createBrowserHistory` object - v4.x/v5.x
routerReducerKey	yes	if you don't like `router` name for reducer.
reduxTravelling	yes	if you want to play with redux-dev-tools :D.
selectRouterState	yes	custom selector for router state. With redux-immutable selectRouterState = state => state.get("router")
savePreviousLocations	yes	if > 0 add the key "previousLocation" to state.router, with the last N locations. [{location,action}, ...]
batch	yes	a batch function for batching states updates with history updates. Prevent top-down updates on react : usage `import { unstable_batchedUpdates } from 'react-dom';` `batch = unstable_batchedUpdates`
reachGlobalHistory	yes	globalHistory object from `@reach/router` - support imperatively `navigate` of @reach/router - `import { navigate } from '@reach/router'` : usage `import { globalHistory } from '@reach/router';` `reachGlobalHistory = globalHistory`

Advanced config

support "navigate" from @reach/router

import { createReduxHistoryContext, reachify } from "redux-first-history";
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'history';
import { globalHistory } from '@reach/router';

const { createReduxHistory, routerMiddleware, routerReducer } = createReduxHistoryContext({ 
  history: createBrowserHistory(),
  reachGlobalHistory: globalHistory,
  //other options if needed 
});

React batch updates: top-down batch updates for maximum performance. Fix also some update edge cases.

import { createReduxHistoryContext, reachify } from "redux-first-history";
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'history';
import { unstable_batchedUpdates } from 'react-dom';

const { createReduxHistory, routerMiddleware, routerReducer } = createReduxHistoryContext({ 
  history: createBrowserHistory(),
  batch: unstable_batchedUpdates,
  //other options if needed 
});

Feedback

Let me know what do you think!
Enjoy it? Star this project! :D

credits & inspiration

redux-first-routing
react-router-redux
connected-react-router

Contributors

See Contributors.

License

MIT License.

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