redux-call-effect

A declarative way to call action creators.

npm install --save redux-call-effect

import { call } from 'redux-call-effect';

// Before:
dispatch(doAction(param1, param2));
// After:
dispatch(call(doAction, param1, param2));

Why?

To simplify testing.

In some cases calling action creators imperatively makes testing virtually impossibe, especially when using thunks. Consider this example:

// Source:
const onResultSaved = result => dispatch => {
  /* ... */
};

const saveResult = result => dispatch => {
  /* ... */
  dispatch(onResultSaved(result));
};

// Test:
test('saveResult() dispatches postResult', () => {
  saveResult(result)(dispatch);
  // Cannot do that, onResultSaved() returns a new function every time!
  expect(dispatch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(onResultSaved(result)); // Error!
});

We cannot easily check if a correct thunk was dispatched. redux-call-effect to the rescue:

// Source:
const onResultSaved = result => dispatch => {
  /* ... */
};

const saveResult = result => dispatch => {
  /* ... */
  dispatch(call(onResultSaved, result));
};

// Test:
test('saveResult() dispatches postResult', () => {
  saveResult(result)(dispatch);
  expect(dispatch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(call(onResultSaved, result)); // Works!
});

Installation

npm install --save redux-call-effect

Before you can use call you have to inject the middleware with applyMiddleware:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import { callEffectMiddleware } from 'redux-call-effect';
import reducer from './reducer';

const store = createStore(reducer, applyMiddleware(callEffectMiddleware));

Inspiration

This project is of course inspired by the call effect from the awesome redux-saga.

License

MIT