DATA-CLIENT(1)

NAME

data-clientAsync State Management without the Management. REST, GraphQL, SSE, Websockets

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

Async State Management without the Management. REST, GraphQL, SSE, Websockets

README

Reactive Data Client

The scalable way to build applications with dynamic data.

Declarative resouce definitons for REST, GraphQL, Websockets+SSE and more
Performant rendering in React, NextJS, React Native, Expo, Vue

Schema driven. Zero updater functions.

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📖Read The Docs  |  🏁Getting Started  |  🤖Codegen
🎮 Demos:   Todo  |  Github Social  |  NextJS SSR  |  Websockets+SSR

Installation

npm install --save @data-client/react @data-client/rest @data-client/test

For more details, see the Installation docs page.

Skills

npx skills add reactive/data-client

Then run skill "data-client-setup"

Usage

Simple TypeScript definition

class User extends Entity {
  id = '';
  username = '';
}

class Article extends Entity { id = ''; title = ''; body = ''; author = User.fromJS(); createdAt = Temporal.Instant.fromEpochMilliseconds(0);

static schema = { author: User, createdAt: Temporal.Instant.from, }; }

Create collection of API Endpoints

const UserResource = resource({
  path: '/users/:id',
  schema: User,
  optimistic: true,
});

const ArticleResource = resource({ path: '/articles/:id', schema: Article, searchParams: {} as { author?: string }, optimistic: true, paginationField: 'cursor', });

One line data binding

const article = useSuspense(ArticleResource.get, { id });
return (
  <article>
    <h2>
      {article.title} by {article.author.username}
    </h2>
    <p>{article.body}</p>
  </article>
);

Reactive Mutations

const ctrl = useController();
return (
  <>
    <CreateArticleForm
      onSubmit={article =>
        ctrl.fetch(ArticleResource.getList.push, { id }, article)
      }
    />
    <ProfileForm
      onSubmit={user =>
        ctrl.fetch(UserResource.update, { id: article.author.id }, user)
      }
    />
    <button onClick={() => ctrl.fetch(ArticleResource.delete, { id })}>
      Delete
    </button>
  </>
);

Subscriptions

const price = useLive(PriceResource.get, { symbol });
return price.value;

Type-safe Imperative Actions

const ctrl = useController();
await ctrl.fetch(ArticleResource.update, { id }, articleData);
await ctrl.fetchIfStale(ArticleResource.get, { id });
ctrl.expireAll(ArticleResource.getList);
ctrl.invalidate(ArticleResource.get, { id });
ctrl.invalidateAll(ArticleResource.getList);
ctrl.setResponse(ArticleResource.get, { id }, articleData);
ctrl.set(Article, { id }, articleData);

Programmatic queries

const queryTotalVotes = new Query(
  new Collection([BlogPost]),
  posts => posts.reduce((total, post) => total + post.votes, 0),
);

const totalVotes = useQuery(queryTotalVotes); const totalVotesForUser = useQuery(queryTotalVotes, { userId });

const groupTodoByUser = new Query(
  TodoResource.getList.schema,
  todos => Object.groupBy(todos, todo => todo.userId),
);
const todosByUser = useQuery(groupTodoByUser);

Powerful Middlewares

class LoggingManager implements Manager {
  middleware: Middleware = controller => next => async action => {
    console.log('before', action, controller.getState());
    await next(action);
    console.log('after', action, controller.getState());
  };

cleanup() {} }

class TickerStream implements Manager {
  middleware: Middleware = controller => {
    this.handleMsg = msg => {
      controller.set(Ticker, { id: msg.id }, msg);
    };
    return next => action => next(action);
  };

  init() {
    this.websocket = new WebSocket('wss://ws-feed.myexchange.com');
    this.websocket.onmessage = event => {
      const msg = JSON.parse(event.data);
      this.handleMsg(msg);
    };
  }
  cleanup() {
    this.websocket.close();
  }
}

Integrated data mocking

const fixtures = [
  {
    endpoint: ArticleResource.getList,
    args: [{ maxResults: 10 }] as const,
    response: [
      {
        id: '5',
        title: 'first post',
        body: 'have a merry christmas',
        author: { id: '10', username: 'bob' },
        createdAt: new Date(0).toISOString(),
      },
      {
        id: '532',
        title: 'second post',
        body: 'never again',
        author: { id: '10', username: 'bob' },
        createdAt: new Date(0).toISOString(),
      },
    ],
  },
  {
    endpoint: ArticleResource.update,
    response: ({ id }, body) => ({
      ...body,
      id,
    }),
  },
];

const Story = () => ( <MockResolver fixtures={options[result]}> <ArticleList maxResults={10} /> </MockResolver> );

...all typed ...fast ...and consistent

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Features

Examples

  • Todo: GitHub | Sandbox | Edit on CodeSandbox
  • Github: GitHub | Sandbox
  • NextJS: GitHub | Sandbox | Edit on CodeSandbox
  • Websockets: GitHub | Sandbox | Website

API

Reactive Applications

Define Data

Networking definition

Data model
Data TypeMutableSchemaDescriptionQueryable
ObjectEntity, EntityMixinsingle unique object
Union(Entity)polymorphic objects (A | B)
🛑Objectstatically known keys🛑
Invalidate(Entity)delete an entity🛑
ListCollection(Array)growable lists
🛑Arrayimmutable lists🛑
Alllist of all entities of a kind
MapCollection(Values)growable maps
🛑Valuesimmutable maps🛑
anyQuery(Queryable)memoized custom transforms

SEE ALSO

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