Redux

[Rewinder]

In this thread I will ask stupid questions about Redux.


Question 1

I'm trying to call an API from a form using redux-form. Do I dispatch an action inside the "handleSubmit" function, and then another one when the call returns?

Does that make any sense? I can't find an example online that uses an API call.


Edit: Or maybe the first action calls the second action when the api call returns?

 

[_kabal_]

I havent looked deeply at react and redux, but I think that is what something like redux-saga is for - https://github.com/yelouafi/redux-saga

 

[Rewinder]

I need to install another package to make a post request?

 

[_kabal_]

No, you could do it inside your reducer function, without middleware, but then it becomes impure.

If you are fine with that, then go ahead.

You are still going to need something to do an Ajax request though. You could use vanilla XMLHttpRequest, or if you don't need to support old browsers, you can use the fetch API - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

Else you could at a pinch use jquery ajax, and get its Promise functionality while you are at it

 

[Rewinder]

I think for now I will just call the api in the click function with axios, then dispatch an action when it returns.