use-global-context

Use-global-context is a new way to use useContext better with selector.

Features

• Easy global state management.
• useSelector function.
• Prevents the unnecessary renders.
• Support for SSR.
• No dependencies.

Why

The context API allows you to create a simple store.

However, it can lead to unnecessary renders if you don't split the context with proper granularity. It also doesn't have a feature like redux's useSelector. That means you have to memo. Please see the basic solutions.

This library is intended to prevent unnecessary renders with selector, which is a problem with the context API and easily manage global state.

Installation

You can install the package from npm.

npm install use-global-context

or

yarn add use-global-context

Usage

General

The first step is to define the reducer and its state.

export const incrementCount = () => ({ type: "INCREMENT" });
export const decrementCount = () => ({ type: "DECREMENT" });

export const counterReducer = (state, action) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case "INCREMENT": {
      return {
        count: state.count + 1
      };
    }

    case "DECREMENT": {
      return {
        count: state.count - 1
      };
    }

    default: {
      return state;
    }
  }
};

export const initialCounterState = {
  count: 100,
  error: null,
  status: null,
};

Next, you can use it in the use-global-context API as follows.

import { createGlobalContext } from "use-global-context";
import {
  incrementCount,
  decrementCount,
  counterReducer,
  initialCounterState,
} from "./reducer/counter";

export const [ useGlobalContext, GlobalContextProvider ] = createGlobalContext({
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: initialCounterState
  },
});

const App = () => (
  <GlobalContextProvider>
    <Counter />
    <CounterButton />
  </GlobalContextProvider>
)

const Counter = () => {
  // You can get the state value of the context as follows
  const count = useGlobalContext(({ state }) => state.counter.count);

  return <p>count: {count}</p>;
};

const CounterButton = () => {
  const counterDispatch = useGlobalContext(({ dispatch }) => dispatch.counter);

  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={() => counterDispatch(incrementCount())}>+ 1</button>
      <button onClick={() => counterDispatch(decrementCount())}>- 1</button>
    </>
  );
};

Examples

Simple count application

This is an example of a counter app that uses the createGlobalContext API.

API

createGlobalContext API

createGlobalContext is an API that generate useGlobalContext hooks with each reducer and initialState of the argument.

import { createGlobalContext } from "use-global-context";

import { counterReducer, counterInitialState } from './reducer/counter'
import { messageReducer, messageInitialState } from './reducer/message'
import { appReducer, appInitialState } from './reducer/app'

export const [ useGlobalContext, GlobalContextProvider, stateController ] = createGlobalContext({
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: counterInitialState,
  },
  app: {
    reducer: appReducer,
    initialState: appInitialState,
  },
});

useGlobalContext hooks

const state = useGlobalContext(selector, equalityFunction);

this hooks is for Get the state from GlobalContextProvider.

Arguments

• selector (type: (store: Store) => SelectedStore)

  • Specifies the value to be extracted from the store.

• equalityFunction (type: ((a: any, b: any) => boolean) | undefined)

  • Specifies how to compare whether to re-render or not. The default is to compare with ===.

Returns

• state (type: SelectedStore)
  • Return value of the function specified by selector.

Usage

const state = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => state);
// {
//   counter: {
//     count: 100,
//     error: null,
//     status: null,
//   },
//   app: {
//     name: 'use-global-context',
//     description: 'A easy global state management library'
//   }
// }

const count = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => state.counter.count);
// 100

const counterObject = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => state.counter, someDeepEqualFunction);
// {
//   count: 100,
//   error: null,
//   status: null,
// }

const dispatch = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => dispatch)
// Each of the dispatch functions
// {
//   counter: ƒ dispatchAction,
//   message: ƒ dispatchAction,
//   app: ƒ dispatchAction
// }

const counterDispatch = useGlobalContext(({ state, dispatch }) => dispatch.counter);
// counter: ƒ dispatchAction,

GlobalContextProvider

() => (
  <GlobalContextProvider>
    {children}
  </GlobalContextProvider>
)

GlobalContextProvider is the provider that stores for the useGlobalContext.

stateController

stateController included some function that manage state value of useGlobalConext.

Usage

const contextValue = {
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: {
      count: 0
    }
  },
}

const [
  useGlobalContext,
  GlobalContextProvider,
  stateController
] = createGlobalContext(contextValue);

// You can get the value of store.
const store = stateController.getState()
// {
//   counter: {
//     count: 0
//   }
// }

// You can override the state.
stateController.setState({
  counter: 100
})

mergeInitialState API

const mergedInitialState = mergedInitialState(target, source)

API to merge specific initial states for props passed to createGlobalContext. This API is useful for inheriting the value of the store from the SSR in the browser.

Arguments

• target (type: GlobalContextReducers)

  • Specifies the value of the base context.

• source (type: PartialState<GlobalContextReducers> | undefined)

  • Specifies the state to merge.

Returns

• mergedInitialState (type: GlobalContextReducers)
  • Value obtained by merging the value of source with that of target

Usage

const contextValue = {
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: {
      count: 0
    }
  },
}

const ssrState = {
  counter: {
    count: 100
  }
}

// The initial value of count will be set to 100.
const [
  useGlobalContext,
  GlobalContextProvider,
] = createGlobalContext(mergeInitialState(contextValue, ssrState));

TypeScript

Context value's type

You can define the value type of the context as follows. For example, to define the type of the value of a context created with createGlobalContext, you can use the following.

import {
  createGlobalContext,
  GlobalContextValue,
} from 'use-global-context';
import { counterReducer, counterInitialState } from './reducer/counter'
import { messageReducer, messageInitialState } from './reducer/message'
import { appReducer, appInitialState } from './reducer/app'

const contextValue = {
  counter: {
    reducer: counterReducer,
    initialState: counterInitialState,
  },
  message: {
    reducer: messageReducer,
    initialState: messageInitialState,
  },
  app: {
    reducer: appReducer,
    initialState: appInitialState,
  },
}

const [ useGlobalContext, GlobalContextProvider ] = createGlobalContext(contextValue);

// You can define like this !!
type GlobalContextValue = GlobalContextValue<typeof contextValue>;

const appNameSelector = (state: GlobalContextValue) => state.app.name

const appName = useGlobalContext(appNameSelector)

License

MIT © kqito