stocked

Note

This repository was moved into reactive-forms monorepo

Tiny state management library for react.

⚠️ Currently this library is not ready for production. ⚠️

Installation

npm i stocked

What is this

This is tiny state management library, inspired by Recoil.

The problem

If you need to share state between your components, you'll face the performance issue. Saving all your app state into context isn't good solution, because changing value causes whole app rerender.

The solution

"Stocked" adds a little functionality for handling global state. Changing this state not rerenders all your app, it rerenders only components, which use it.

How to use

Wrap your app into StockRoot component. To access stock variable, use useStockValue hook. If you want to change variable, use useStockState hook, which is similar to standard React's useState hook.

Basic usage

import React from 'react';
import { StockRoot, useStockState } from 'stocked';

const initialValues = {
    testValue: 'asdf',
};

const StockInput = () => {
    const [value, setValue] = useStockState('hello');

    return <input value={value} onChange={e => setValue(e.target.value)} />;
};

const App = () => (
    <StockRoot initialValues={initialValues}>
        <div>
            <StockInput />
        </div>
    </StockRoot>
);

How it works?

"Stocked" saves all values into React reference. As we know, changing value inside React reference not enforces component re-render. But why we can still get actual values? Because you can observe value change. So, what useStockValue hook does, it just subscribes to value changes, and when value will change, it will change it's own state, what will force component to rerender.

Limitations

StockRoot supports only 1 stock. This means, that when you use useStockState hook, it will take stock from nearest parent context. To use few stocks at the same time, we suggest to create your own StockRoot:

/* Declare types for your stock values */

type Stock1Values = {
    test: string;
    test2: string;
};

type Stock2Values = {
    example: string;
    nested: {
        value: number;
    };
};

/* Declare type for your context */

type MyStockContextType = {
    stock1: Stock<Stock1Values>;
    stock2: Stock<Stock2Values>;
};

/* Create context */

const MyStockContext = React.createContext<any>({});

/* Create your custom StockRoot */

type MyStockRootProps = {
    initialValues1: Stock1Values;
    initialValues2: Stock2Values;
    children?: React.ReactNode;
};

const MyStockRoot = ({ initialValues1, initialValues2, children }: MyStockRootProps) => {
    const stock1 = useStock({ initialValues: initialValues1 });
    const stock2 = useStock({ initialValues: initialValues2 });

    return <MyStockContext.Provider value={{ stock1, stock2 }}>{children}</MyStockContext.Provider>;
};

/* Use value from stock */

const ExampleComponent = () => {
    const { stock1 } = React.useContext(MyStockContext);
    const { stock2 } = React.useContext(MyStockContext);

    /* works the same as before, just with custom-stock provided */
    const valueFromFirstStock = useStockValue('test', stock1);
    const valueFromSecondStock = useStockValue('example', stock2);

    return (
        <div>
            {valueFromFirstStock}/{valueFromSecondStock}
        </div>
    );
};

/* Or, use stock state state */

const ExampleStateComponent = () => {
    const { stock1 } = React.useContext(MyStockContext);
    const { stock2 } = React.useContext(MyStockContext);

    /* works the same as before, just with custom-stock provided */
    const [valueFromFirstStock, setFirstValue] = useStockState('test', stock1);
    const [valueFromSecondStock, setSecondValue] = useStockState('example', stock2);

    return (
        <div>
            {valueFromFirstStock}/{valueFromSecondStock}
        </div>
    );
};

API

StockRoot

The main component, which should wrap all code, which uses stock values. Creates stock and puts it in StockContext.

Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
initialValues	object		Initial stock values

useStockContext

Hook, returns Stock object from Context or throws error, if used outside StockContext.

useStock

Hook, returns new Stock object.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
initialValues	object		Initial stock values

useStockState

Hook, returns tuple of value and value set action. Returns actual value. This means, this hook fires re-render each time value in stock was changed. Similar to standard React's useState hook.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
path	string		Path to variable in stock, deeply gets value. Explanation
stock	Stock	undefined	Optional parameter, if you want to work with custom stock, not received from context.

Returns

[value: V, set: (value: V) => void]

useStockValue

Hook, which returns actual stock value. This means, it will update component each time when value in stock changes.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
path	string		Path to variable in stock, deeply gets value. Explanation
stock	Stock	undefined	optional parameter, if you want to work with custom stock, not received from context.

Returns

value: V

Stock

Object, containing values and function to work with stock

Properties

Name	Type	Default	Description
values	Readonly<React.MutableRefObject<T>>		Reference to actual values1
observe	<V>(path: string, observer: Observer<V>) => void		Register observer, which will be called when variable was updated
stopObserving	<V>(path: string, observer: Observer<V>) => void		Remove observer
setValue	(path: string, value: unknown) => void		Set stock value
setValues	(values: T) => void		Set all stock values
isObserved	(path: string) => boolean		Returns, if value is observed or not

For changing value use setValue and setValues instead. For accessing variable use useStockValue or useStockState or, if you want to provide custom logic, subscribe to changes via observe and remember to do cleanup via stopObserving. Why it is so complicated? Because of performance issues, stock not updates directly values, what will cause whole app re-render. Instead, it uses observers to re-render only necessary parts.

Observer

Function, callen when value was changed.

Type

type Observer<V> = (message: V) => void

Footnotes

1. WARN: do not try to mutate those values, or use them for display. ↩