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@atomico/store a more predictable and natural model for asynchrony when controlling states.

@atomico/store is Naturally asynchronous.

interface State {
api: string;
loading: boolean;
products: { id: number; title: string; price: number };
}
const initialState = (state: State) => ({
api: "",
loading: false,
products: [],
});
async function* getProducts(state: State) {
yield { ...state, loading: true };
return {
...(yield),
loading: false,
products: await (await fetch(state.api)).json(),
};
}
const store = new Store(initialState, {
actions: { getProducts },
});

Objectives

  1. 1.
    Asynchrony management.
  2. 2.
    Finitely predictable asynchrony.
  3. 3.
    Modularity and composition.

Asynchrony management

Application events and service calls are naturally asynchronous, with @atomico/store you can use asynchronous functions or asynchronous generators to define the update cycle.
update cycle? By this I mean the states that occur sequentially when dispatching the action, example:
async function* getProducts(state: State) {
yield { ...state, loading: true };
return {
...(yield),
loading: false,
products: await (await fetch(state.api)).json(),
};
}
The previous action will generate 2 states when dispatched:
  1. 1.
    state 1:{loading: true, products:[]}
  2. 2.
    state 2: {loading: false, products:[...product]}
The advantage of this is that the process is clearly observable by the store and by whoever dispatches the action.

Finitely predictable asynchrony

Every action in @atomico/store is wrapped in a promise that defines when it ends its cycle, this will let you execute actions sequentially, example:
await store.actions.orderyBy();
await store.actions.insert({ id: 1000 });
await store.actions.updateAll();

Modularity and composition

@atomico/store allows to decouple the actions and the state of the store, for a better modularization , example:
actions.js
store.js
export interface State {
api: string;
loading: boolean;
products: { id: number; title: string; price: number };
}
export const initialState = (state: State) => ({
api: "",
loading: false,
products: [],
});
export async function* getProducts(state: State) {
yield { ...state, loading: true };
return {
...(yield),
loading: false,
products: await (await fetch(state.api)).json(),
};
}
import * as Actions from "./actions";
export default new Store(Actions.initialStore, { actions: { Actions } });

Api