Description
Refract is a new framework by FanDuel. Refract solves the problem of side-effects in React apps, letting developers write pure, side-effect-free data flows, isolating the impure code into a simple yet powerful abstraction built on top of reactive programming.
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README
Handle your component effects and side-effects in a clear and declarative fashion by using asynchronous data streams (reactive programming).
Why? · Install · The Gist · Learn · Contribute · Discuss
- 🎳 Decentralised: attach effects and side-effects to your components, for better code splitting results
- 🌅 Gradual: use on an existing component today, throughout your app tomorrow
- 🚀 Reactive: leverage the power and benefits of reactive programming
- 💾 Tiny: less than 2Kb minified and gzipped
- ✏ Typed: written in TypeScript, fully typed integrations
- ⚡ Universal: supports React, React Native, Inferno and Preact
Refract makes reactive programming possible in React, React Native, Preact and Inferno, with only a single higher-order component or a single hook! You can choose to start using a tiny bit of reactive programming, or go full reactive. Refract allows you to:
- Manage side effects like API calls, analytics, logging, etc.
- Manipulate, replace and inject props, you can even fully replace Redux
connect
HoC - Handle state
- Render components
We also provide a Redux integration, which can serve as a template for integrations with other libraries. With a single HoC, you can fully replace libraries like recompose, redux-observable, and react-redux to name a few!
Why?
Component-based architecture and functional programming have become an increasingly popular approach for building UIs. They help make apps more predictable, more testable, and more maintainable.
However, our apps don't exist in a vacuum! They need to handle state, make network requests, handle data persistence, log analytics, deal with changing time, and so on. Any non-trivial app has to handle any number of these effects. Wouldn't it be nice to cleanly separate them from our apps?
Refract solves this problem for you, by harnessing the power of reactive programming. For an in-depth introduction, head to Why Refract
.
Installation
Refract is available for a number of reactive programming libraries. For each library, a Refract integration is available for React, Inferno, Preact and Redux.
Available packages:
<!-- prettier-ignore-start --> | | React | Inferno | Preact | Redux | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Callbag | refract-callbag | refract-inferno-callbag | refract-preact-callbag | refract-redux-callbag | | Most | refract-most | refract-inferno-most | refract-preact-most | refract-redux-most | | RxJS | refract-rxjs | refract-inferno-rxjs | refract-preact-rxjs | refract-redux-rxjs | | xstream | refract-xstream | refract-inferno-xstream | refract-preact-xstream | refract-redux-xstream | <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
To use the latest stable version, simply npm install
the package you want to use:
npm install --save refract-rxjs
The Gist
The example below uses refract-rxjs
to send data to localstorage.
Every time the username
prop changes, its new value is sent into the stream. The stream debounces the input for two seconds, then maps it into an object (with a type
of localstorage
) under the key value
. Each time an effect with the correct type is emitted from this pipeline, the handler calls localstorage.setItem
with the effect's name
and value
properties.
const aperture = component => {
return component.observe('username').pipe(
debounce(2000),
map(username => ({
type: 'localstorage',
name: 'username',
value: username
}))
)
}
const handler = initialProps => effect => {
switch (effect.type) {
case 'localstorage':
localstorage.setItem(effect.name, effect.value)
return
}
}
const WrappedComponent = withEffects(aperture, { handler })(BaseComponent)
The example demonstrates uses the two building blocks used with Refract - an aperture
and a handler
- and shows how they can be integrated into a React component via the withEffects
higher-order component.
Aperture
An aperture
controls the streams of data entering Refract. It is a function which observes data sources within your app, passes this data through any necessary logic flows, and outputs a stream of effect
values in response.
Handler
A handler
is a function which causes side-effects in response to effect
values.
Learn Refract
Documentation
Documentation is available at refract.js.org. We aim to provide a helpful and thorough documentation: all documentation files are located on this repo and we welcome any pull request helping us achieve that goal.
Examples
We maintain and will grow over time a set of examples to illustrate the potential of Refract, as well as providing reactive programming examples: refract.js.org/examples.
Examples are illustrative and not the idiomatic way to use Refract. Each example is available for the four reactive libraries we support (RxJS, xstream, Most and Callbag), and we provide links to run the code live on codesandbox.io. All examples are hosted on this repo, and we welcome pull requests helping us maintaining them.
Contributing
Guidelines
We welcome many forms of contribution from anyone who wishes to get involved.
Before getting started, please read through our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
Links
Logo
The Refract logo is available in the Logo directory.
License
[Refract is available under the MIT license.](LICENSE)
Discuss
Everyone is welcome to join our discussion channel - #refract
on the Reactiflux Discord server.
Talks
- ReactiveConf 2018 - Thomas Roch: Be More Functional and Reactive in React
- ReactiveConf 2018 - AMA w/ Thomas Roch
Articles
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Refract README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.