React-Actor

A simple data library of React. Use the action model.
This library is used to resolve the problem of the communication between react components, no matter if they are parent-son or not.

Install

npm install react-actor --save

Usage

1. Define a component and register an action to listen

import Actor from 'react-actor'

class A extends Actor {

  constructor(...args) {
    super(...args)
    this.state = {
      messages: [
        { tile: 'title1', time: 1234567989 },
        { tile: 'title2', time: 1234564999 }
      ]
    }

    // register a response function of an action
    this.onAction('addMessage', (msg)=>{
        this.setState({ messages: this.state.messages.push(msg) })
      })
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <ul>
        {
          this.state.messages.map((item, index)=>{
            return <li key={ index }><b>{item.title}</b> - {item.time}</li>  
          })
        }
      </ul>
    )
  }
}

2. Trigger the action with data

import Actor from 'react-actor'

class B extends Actor {

  // trigger the action with data
  addMsg = ()=> {
    this.act('addMessage',
      { tile: 'title3', time: 1234367989 }
    )
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <button onClick={ this.addMsg }>add message</button>
    )
  }
}

Docs

• onAction

    function onAction(actionName, callback)
    @param actionName   { string }     - the action name to listen
    @param callback     { Function }   - the response function to receive the data when this action is triggered

• act

  function act(actionName, data)
  @param actionName   { string }     - the action name to trigger
  @param callback     { Function }   - the data to send with the action triggered