dhistory

Dispatches actions on history state changes (ie. push state or navigate).

Getting started

Install dhistory using npm:

npm install -s dhistory

Or via yarn:

yarn add dhistory

Define routes and connect to your store:

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'dhistory';

const routes = {
  '/posts/:id': 'VIEW_POST',
  '/posts': 'VIEW_POSTS',
  '/': 'VIEW_HOME',
};

const reducer = (state, action) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'VIEW_POST':
      return { ...state, post_id: action.id, view: 'POST' };
    case 'VIEW_POSTS':
      return { ...state, view: 'POSTS' };
    case 'VIEW_HOME':
      return { ...state, view: 'HOME' };
    ...
  }
};

const store = createStore(reducers, applyMiddleware(createBrowserHistory(routes)));

Your store will now receive actions defined in routes when the browser's history changes. For example, when the URL changes to /posts/123 the action VIEW_POST will be dispatched with the param id: 123.

To navigate simply dispatch the action, along with any parameters, as you normally would in your Redux app:

dispatch({ type: 'VIEW_POST', id: 1 });

Which will update the location to /posts/1 and dispatch the action.

Motivation

There are many routers and history management libraries but none of them seem to truly fitted with Redux. Navigations don't match with actions or follow the same flow and are treated separate from everything else.

Example:

import { Router, Route } from 'react-router';

<Router>
  <Route to="/post/new" component={NewPostView}/>
  <Route to="/post/:id" component={PostView}/>
</Router>

function createPost(data) {
  // dhistory will update the history for us, otherwise we'd have to manually update it:
  // ie. history.push(`/posts/${post.id}`);
  return { type: 'POST_CREATED', post };
}

function NewPostView({ store }) {
  return (
    <PostForm onSubmit={data => store.dispatch(createPost(data))}>
      ...
    </PostForm>
  );
}

API

createBrowserHistory(routes, options) and createMemoryHistory(routes, options) and createHashHistory(routes, options)

Returns a router object.

Parameters

• routes - A routes object. Keys are patterns and values are either the action name or an action object.
• options - Options for browser history. Read ReactTraining's history package for more info.

Returns a function to be passed to applyMiddleware.

Attribution

Much of this work wouldn't be made possible without the efforts put to react-router.