Redux-thunk and redux-promise: empty payload in PENDING state

Question

So I have redux-thunk set up and when I call the updateUser(userInfos) action, it returns a promise to update the server with those infos.

But sequentially I need to update the local state with those infos too, and if I wait for UPDATE_USER_FULFILLED, the effect of my action is not instantaneous, which feels weird for the user.

I thought of reducing the UPDATE_USER_PENDING action to update the local state before the server response arrives with up-to-date data (which should be the same so no re-rendering), but unfortunately, the payload of UPDATE_USER_PENDING action is null :(

Ain't there a way to load it with some data, which would allow instant UI response before server return?

Could be something like:

export function updateUser(user) {
  return {
    type: UPDATE_USER,
    payload: {
      promise: userServices.update(user),
      localPayload: user,
    }
  }
}

but I'm guessing this is not available?

For now, the only solution I see is to create a UPDATE_USER_LOCAL action which would do the local action in parallel with the server call. But this is not very elegant and much heavier.

Thanks for the help