RemoteData

A Fork of remote-data-ts

Description

RemoteData is an ADT (algebraic data type) described in this article. Heavily based on fp-ts lib.

How is this different from devex-web-frontend/remote-data-ts?

• The main difference is the addition of another type in the union: RemoteRefresh which captures the state where you have data, but you are refreshing it from your remote data source.
  • Considered a Right
    • The value in RemoteRefresh will be mapped over, etc.
    • #toOption returns Some
• Did some reorganizing of the code for personal ergonomics.
• Added a caseOf method that is an object version of fold since there are so many states! Inspired by daggy's #cata method.

Installation

npm i --save @cala/remote-data-ts

How to lift (wrap) your data in RemoteData:

RemoteData is an union of few types: RemoteInitial, RemotePending, RemoteFailure, RemoteRefresh, and RemoteSuccess.

While your data in initial or pending state just use the initial or pending constant.

import { initial, pending } from '@cala/remote-data-ts';

const customers = initial;
// or
const customers = pending;

When you receive data from server, use the failure or success constructor:

import { failure, success } from '@cala/remote-data-ts';
import { apiClient } from 'apiClient';
import { TCustomer } from './MyModel';

const getCustomers = (): RemoteData<Error, TCustomer[]> => {
   const rawData: TCustomer[] = apiClient.get('/customers');

   try {
        const length = rawData.length;

        return success(rawData);
   }
   catch(err) {
        return failure(new Error('parse error'));
   }
}

When you need to re-fetch or refresh your data, use the refresh constructor.

How to fold (unwrap) your data from RemoteData:

Finally you pass data to the component and want to render values, so now it's time to get our values back from RemoteData wrapper:

import { NoData, Pending, Failure } from './MyPlaceholders';
import { TCustomer } from './MyModel';

type TCustomersList = {
    entities: RemoteData<TCustomer[]>;
};

const CustomersList: SFC<TCustomersList> = ({ entities }) => entities.foldL(
    () => <NoData />,
    () => <Pending />,
    err => <Failure error={err} />,
    stale => <Refreshing oldItems={stale} />
    data => <ul>{data.map(item => <li>{item.name}</li>)}</ul>
);

// or caseOf

const CustomersList: SFC<TCustomersList> = ({ entities }) => entities.caseOf({
    initial: <NoData />,
    pending: <Pending />,
    failure: err => <Failure error={err} />,
    refresh: stale => <Refreshing oldItems={stale} />
    success: data => <ul>{data.map(item => <li>{item.name}</li>)}</ul>
});