Handling async request with React, Redux and Axios?

Question

I am new to React JS and Redux and it has been too overwhelming to get going. I am trying to make a POST request using Axios, but I am unable to make it. May be I am missing something in the container file. Below is the code. Check plnkr

Update: I am getting @@redux-form/SET_SUBMIT_SUCCEEDED message after submitting. But when I am checking in the network tab, I don't see the call to API. And also when I am consoling the submitted values, I see only name and fullname values. It doesn't consist of logo and details. What am I missing?

Component file

   import React, { PureComponent } from 'react'
   import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
   import { Field,reduxForm } from 'redux-form'
   import {   Columns,Column, TextArea, Label,Button  } from 'bloomer'
   import FormField from 'FormField'

   const validate = (values) => {
     const errors = {}
    const requiredFields = 
      ['organizationName','organizationFullName','organizationDetails']

    requiredFields.forEach((field) => {
     if (!values[field]) {
     errors[field] = 'This field can\'t be empty!'
    }
  })
     return errors
}

  const formConfig = {
   validate,
   form: 'createOrganization',
   enableReinitialize: true
   }

  export class CreateOrganization extends PureComponent {
   static propTypes = {
     isLoading:PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
     handleSubmit: PropTypes.func.isRequired, // from react-redux     
     submitting: PropTypes.bool.isRequired // from react-redux
    }
   onSubmit = data => {
     console.log(data)
   }
  render () {
     const { handleSubmit,submitting,isLoading } = this.props
      return (
        <Columns isCentered>
        <form onSubmit={handleSubmit(this.onSubmit.bind(this))} > 

          <Column isSize='3/6' >        
            <Label>Organization Name</Label>             
            <Field 
              name="organizationName"
              component={FormField}
              type="text"
              placeholder="Organization Name"
            />   
          </Column>       


          <Column isSize='3/6'>
            <Label>Organization Full Name</Label>              
            <Field
              name="organizationFullName"
              component={FormField}
              type="text"
              placeholder="Organization Full Name"
            />  
          </Column> 


           <Column isSize='3/6'>            
            <Label>Organization Logo</Label>              
            <Input                  
              name="organizationLogo"                  
              type="file"
              placeholder="Logo"
            /> 
          </Column>

          <Column isSize='3/6'>
            <Label>Organization Details</Label>         
                <TextArea placeholder={'Enter Details'} />               
          </Column>          


          <Column >
            <span className="create-button">
              <Button type="submit" isLoading={submitting || isLoading} isColor='primary'>
                Submit
              </Button>  
            </span> 
              <Button type="button" isColor='danger'>
                Cancel
              </Button>                
          </Column>  

        </form>
      </Columns>
    )    
  }
}

  export default reduxForm(formConfig)(CreateOrganization)

Container File

   import React, { PureComponent } from 'react'
   import PropTypes from 'prop-types'
   import { connect } from 'react-redux'
   import Loader from 'Loader'
   import organization from 'state/organization'
   import CreateOrganization from '../components/createOrganization'

   export class Create extends PureComponent {
   static propTypes = {    
     error: PropTypes.object,
     isLoaded: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,  
     create: PropTypes.func.isRequired,   
    }
    onSubmit = data => {
      this.props.create(data)
    }

    render () {
      const { isLoaded, error } = this.props
    return (      
       <CreateOrganization onSubmitForm={this.onSubmit} isLoading=
         {isLoading} />    
     )
   }
 }

   const mapStateToProps = state => ({
     error: organization.selectors.getError(state),
     isLoading: organization.selectors.isLoading(state)
   })

    const mapDispatchToProps = {
      create: organization.actions.create
    }


  export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Create)

Answer 1

Your redux action creators must be plain, object and should dispatch and action with a mandatory key type. However using custom middlewares like redux-thunk you could call axios request within your action creators as without custom middlewares your action creators need to return plain object

Your action creator will look like

export function create (values) {

  return (dispatch) => {
     dispatch({type: CREATE_ORGANIZATION});
     axios.post('/url', values)   
        .then((res) =>{
            dispatch({type: CREATE_ORGANIZATION_SUCCESS, payload: res});
        })
        .catch((error)=> {
            dispatch({type: CREATE_ORGANIZATION_FAILURE, payload: error});
        })
  }

}

and your reducer will look like

export default (state = initialState, action) => {
  const payload = action.payload

   switch (action.type) {    
    case CREATE:    

      return {
        ...state,
        loading: true,
        loaded: false
      }

    case CREATE_SUCCESS:
      return {
        ...state,
        data: state.data.concat(payload.data),
        loading: false,
        loaded: true,
        error: null
      }   

      }

    case CREATE_FAILURE:

      return {
        ...state,
        loading: false,
        loaded: true,
        error: payload
      }
    default:
      return state
  }
}

now while creating the store you can do it like

import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
const store = createStore(
  reducer,
  applyMiddleware(thunk)
);

Apart from this you also need to setUp the redux form

you need to use combineReducers and Provider to pass on the store

import reducer from './reducer';
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { reducer as formReducer } from 'redux-form'

export const rootReducer = combineReducers({
   reducer,
   form: formReducer
})

CodeSandbox

Answer 2

You can do that easily with the help of redux-saga.

About redux-saga:

redux-saga is a library that aims to make application side effects (i.e. asynchronous things like data fetching and impure things like accessing the browser cache) easier to manage, more efficient to execute, simple to test, and better at handling failures.

Installation:

$ npm install --save redux-saga 

or

$ yarn add redux-saga

Please refer to the link : https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga

Answer 3

Redux action creators apparently don't support asynchronous actions which is what you're trying to do with the post request. Redux Thunk should help with this.

You'll want a store.js file that looks like this:

//npm install --save redux-thunk

import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import rootReducer from './reducer.js';

// Note: this API requires redux@>=3.1.0
const store = createStore(
  rootReducer,
  applyMiddleware(thunk) //needed so you can do async
);

Here is what your actions file would look like. Create becomes an action creator that returns a function that then performs the post request and allows you to do the dispatch there allowing you to update your store/state. :

import axios from 'axios'
import { CREATE_ORGANIZATION, CREATE_ORGANIZATION_SUCCESS, CREATE_ORGANIZATION_FAILURE,

       } from './constants'
import * as selectors from './selectors'

/*
  CREATE ORGANIZATION
*/
//uses redux-thunk to make the post call happen
export function create (values) {
  return function(dispatch) {
    return axios.post('/url', values).then((response) => {
      dispatch({ type: 'Insert-constant-here'})
      console.log(response);
    })
    }
  }

Also, you'll want to pass in the onSubmit method you created into onSubmitForm like this. I'm not sure where isLoading is coming from because I don't see it imported in that container component so you may want to look at that too.:

  <createOrganization onSubmitForm={this.onSubmit.bind(this)} isLoading={isLoading} />

Answer 4

I would suggest using redux-promise-middleware. This library requires that the action have a property named payload that is a promise and this is easy with axios. It then integrates with Redux to suffix the root action type (e.g. GET_CUSTOMERS) with PENDING, FULFILLED, and REJECTED and fires those actions.

Firing the action is the same as any other action.

Store

import {applyMiddleware, compose, createStore} from 'redux';
import promiseMiddleware from 'redux-promise-middleware';
import reducer from './reducers';

let middleware = applyMiddleware(promiseMiddleware());
const composeEnhancers = window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ || compose;
const enhancer = composeEnhancers(middleware);

export default createStore(reducer, enhancer);

Action

export function getCustomers() {
  return {
    type: 'GET_CUSTOMERS',
    payload: axios.get('url/to/api')
      .then(res => {
        if (!res.ok) throw new Error('An error occurred.');
        return res;
      })
      .then(res => res.json())
      .catch(err => console.warn(err));
  };
}

Reducer

export default function(state = initialState, action) => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'GET_CUSTOMERS_PENDING':
      // this means the call is pending in the browser and has not
      // yet returned a response
      ...
    case 'GET_CUSTOMERS_FULFILLED':
      // this means the call is successful and the response has been set
      // to action.payload
      ...
    case 'GET_CUSTOMERS_REJECTED':
      // this means the response was unsuccessful so you can handle that
      // error here
      ...
    default:
      return state;
  }
}