Reset the store to it's initial state on receiving a specific action

Question

When a user logs out, I want to reset the entire store to it's initial state. I want to do this because I don't want to store any items in memory after they lost the authentication context.

I think this makes the most sense to be implemented as a middleware, so I started as follows

import { LOGOUT } from 'app/actions/auth';

export default function authMiddleware(store) {
  return action => next => {
    if (action.type === LOGOUT) {
      // ???
    }
    next();
  }
}

Specifically, I am having a hard time finding the initial state of the store on the initial instantiation of the application.

Is there a standard way to do this in redux?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35622588/how-to-reset-the-state-of-a-redux-store — Paul Fitzgerald, Aug 22 '17 at 14:36
You should create a `initialState` variable and return that when the action is `logout`. You can also assign `store = initialState` in the function parameter. — Anurag Singh Bisht, Aug 22 '17 at 14:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '17 at 17:37

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You can set that to the initial state by declaring a variable as

const initialState = {};

And then if the case matches you can return the initialState

answered Aug 22 '17 at 17:37

Mohhamad Hasham

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