Small module for Effector ☄️ to sync stores with different storages (local storage, session storage, async storage, IndexedDB, cookies, server side storage, etc).
- Install
- Usage
- Usage with domains
- Functional helpers
- Formulae
- Advanced usage
- Storage adapters
- FAQ
- TODO
- Sponsored
$ yarn add effector-storage
Or using npm
$ npm install --save effector-storage
Docs: effector-storage/local
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/local'
// persist store `$counter` in `localStorage` with key 'counter'
persist({ store: $counter, key: 'counter' })
// if your storage has a name, you can omit `key` field
persist({ store: $counter })
Stores, persisted in localStorage
, are automatically synced between two (or more) windows/tabs. Also, they are synced between instances, so if you will persist two stores with the same key — each store will receive updates from another one.
Docs: effector-storage/session
Same as above, just import persist
from 'effector-storage/session'
:
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/session'
Stores, persisted in sessionStorage
, are synced between instances, but not between different windows/tabs.
Docs: effector-storage/query
You can reflect plain string store value in query string parameter, using this adapter. Think of it like about synchronizing store value and query string parameter.
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/query'
// persist store `$id` in query string parameter 'id'
persist({ store: $id, key: 'id' })
If two (or more) stores are persisted in query string with the same key — they are synced between themselves.
Use this only with plain string stores (Store<string | null>
) to avoid strange unexpected behavior.
You can use persist
inside Domain's onCreateStore
hook:
import { createDomain } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/local'
const app = createDomain('app')
// this hook will persist every store, created in domain,
// in `localStorage`, using stores' names as keys
app.onCreateStore((store) => persist({ store }))
const $store = app.createStore(0, { name: 'store' })
There are special persist
forms to use with functional programming style. You can use them, if you like, with Domain hook or .thru()
store method:
import { createDomain } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/local/fp'
const app = createDomain('app')
// this hook will persist every store, created in domain,
// in `localStorage`, using stores' names as keys
app.onCreateStore(persist())
const $store = app.createStore(0, { name: 'store' })
// or persist single store in `localStorage` via .thru
const $counter = createStore(0)
.on(increment, (state) => state + 1)
.on(decrement, (state) => state - 1)
.thru(persist({ key: 'counter' }))
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/<adapter>'
persist({ store, ...options }): Subscription
persist({ source, target, ...options }): Subscription
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/<adapter>/fp'
persist({ ...options }?): (store: Store) => Store
In order to synchronize something, you need to specify effector units. Depending on a requirements, you may want to use store
parameter, or source
and target
parameters:
store
(Store): Store to synchronize with local/session storage.source
(Event | Effect | Store): Source unit, which updates will be sent to local/session storage.target
(Event | Effect | Store): Target unit, which will receive updates from local/session storage (as well as initial value). Must be different thansource
to avoid circular updates —source
updates are forwarded directly totarget
.
key
? (string): Key for local/session storage, to store value in. If omitted —store
name is used. Note! Ifkey
is not specified,store
must have aname
! You can use'effector/babel-plugin'
to have those names automatically.pickup
? (Event | Effect | Store): Unit, which you can specify to force updatestore
value from storage.done
? (Event | Effect | Store): Unit, which will be triggered on each successful read or write from/to storage.
Payload structure:key
(string): Samekey
as above.operation
('set'
|'get'
): Did error occurs during setting value to storage or getting value from storage.value
(State): Value set tostore
or got fromstore
.
fail
? (Event | Effect | Store): Unit, which will be triggered in case of any error (serialization/deserialization error, storage is full and so on). Note! Iffail
unit is not specified, any errors will be printed usingconsole.error(Error)
.
Payload structure:key
(string): Samekey
as above.operation
('set'
|'get'
): Did error occurs during setting value to storage or getting value from storage.error
(Error): Error instancevalue
? (any): In case of 'set' operation — value fromstore
. In case of 'get' operation could contain raw value from storage or could be empty.
finally
? (Event | Effect | Store): Unit, which will be triggered either in case of success or error.
Payload structure:
-
(Subscription): You can use this subscription to remove store association with storage, if you don't need them to be synced anymore. It is a function.
-
(store) => Store
(Function): Function, which accepts store to synchronize with storage, and returns:- (Store): Same given store.
You cannot unsubscribe store from storage when using functional form ofpersist
.
- (Store): Same given store.
effector-storage
consists of a core module and adapter modules.
The core module itself does nothing with actual storage, it just connects effector units to the storage adapter, using two Effects and bunch of forwards.
The storage adapter gets and sets values, and also can asynchronously emit values on storage updates.
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
Core function persist
accepts all common options, as persist
functions from sub-modules, plus additional one:
adapter
(StorageAdapter): Storage adapter to use.
There is also fp form too:
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/fp'
Adapter is a function, which is called by the core persist
function, and has following interface:
interface StorageAdapter {
<State>(key: string, update: (raw?: any) => any): {
get(raw?: any): State | Promise<State>
set(value: State): void
}
keyArea?: any
}
key
(string): Unique key to distinguish values in storage.update
(Function): Function, which could be called to get value from storage. In fact this isEffect
withget
function as a handler. In other words, any argument, passed toupdate
function, will end up as argument inget
function.
{ get, set }
({ Function, Function }): Getter from and setter to storage. These functions are used as Effects handlers, and could be sync or async. Also, you don't have to catch exceptions and errors inside those functions — Effects will do that for you.
As mentioned above, call ofupdate
function will triggerget
function with the same argument. So you can handle cases, whenget
function is called during initialpersist
execution (without arguments), or after external update. Check out example below.
Adapter function can have static field keyArea
— this could be any value of any type, which should be unique for keys namespace. For example, two local storage adapters could have different settings, but both of them uses same storage area — localStorage
. So, different stores, persisted in local storage with the same key (but possibly with different adapters), should be synced. That is what keyArea
is responsible for. Value of that field is used as a key in cache Map
.
In case it is omitted — adapter instances is used instead.
For example, simplified localStorage adapter might looks like this. This is over-simplified example, don't do that in real code, there are no serialization and deserialization, no checks for edge cases. This is just to show an idea.
import { createStore } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
const adapter = (key) => ({
get: () => localStorage.getItem(key),
set: (value) => localStorage.setItem(key, value),
})
const store = createStore('', { name: 'store' })
persist({ store, adapter }) // <- use adapter
Using asynchronous storage is just as simple. Once again, this is just a bare simple idea, without serialization and edge cases checks.
import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage'
import { createStore } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
const adapter = (key) => ({
get: async () => AsyncStorage.getItem(key),
set: async (value) => AsyncStorage.setItem(key, value),
})
const store = createStore('', { name: '@store' })
persist({ store, adapter }) // <- use adapter
If your storage can be updated from an external source, then adapter needs a way to inform/update connected store. That is where you will need second update
argument.
import { createStore } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
const adapter = (key, update) => {
addEventListener('storage', (event) => {
if (event.key === key) {
// kick update
// this will call `get` function from below ↓
// wrapped in Effect, to handle any errors
update(event.newValue)
}
})
return {
// `get` function will receive `newValue` argument
// from `update`, called above ↑
get: (newValue) => newValue || localStorage.getItem(key),
set: (value) => localStorage.setItem(key, value),
}
}
const store = createStore('', { name: 'store' })
persist({ store, adapter }) // <- use adapter
If your storage can be updated from external source, and doesn't have any events to react to, but you are able to know about it somehow.
You can use optional pickup
parameter to specify unit to trigger force update:
import { createEvent, createStore, forward } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/session'
// event, which will be used to trigger force update
const pickup = createEvent()
const store = createStore('', { name: 'store' })
persist({ store, pickup }) // <- set `pickup` parameter
// --8<--
// when you are sure, that storage was updated,
// and you need to force update `store` from storage with new value
pickup()
Another option, if you have your own adapter, you can add this feature right into it:
import { createEvent, createStore, forward } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
// event, which will be used in adapter to react to
const pickup = createEvent()
const adapter = (key, update) => {
// if `pickup` event was triggered -> trigger `update`
// this will call `get` function from below ↓
// wrapped in Effect, to handle any errors
forward({ from: pickup, to: update })
return {
get: () => localStorage.getItem(key),
set: (value) => localStorage.setItem(key, value),
}
}
const store = createStore('', { name: 'store' })
persist({ store, adapter }) // <- use your adapter
// --8<--
// when you are sure, that storage was updated,
// and you need to force update `store` from storage with new value
pickup()
I want sync my store with
localStorage
, but I need smart synchronization, not dumb. Each storage update should contain last write timestamp. And on read value I need to check if value has been expired, and fill store with default value in that case.
You can implement it with custom adapter, something like this:
import { createStore } from 'effector'
import { persist } from 'effector-storage'
const adapter = (timeout) => (key) => ({
get() {
const item = localStorage.getItem(key)
if (item === null) return // no value in localStorage
const { time, value } = JSON.parse(item)
if (time + timeout * 1000 < Date.now()) return // value has expired
return value
},
set(value) {
localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify({ time: Date.now(), value }))
},
})
const store = createStore('', { name: 'store' })
// use adapter with timeout = 1 hour ↓↓↓
persist({ store, adapter: adapter(3600) })
Both 'effector-storage/local'
and 'effector-storage/session'
are using common storage
adapter factory. If you want to use other storage, which implements Storage
interface (in fact, synchronous getItem
and setItem
methods are enough) — you can use this factory.
import { storage } from 'effector-storage/storage'
adapter = storage(options)
storage
(Storage): Storage to communicate with.sync
? (boolean, deprecated): Add'storage'
event listener or no. Default =false
.serialize
? ((value: any) => string): Custom serialize function. Default =JSON.stringify
deserialize
? ((value: string) => any): Custom deserialize function. Default =JSON.parse
- (StorageAdapter): Storage adapter, which can be used with the core
persist
function.
The issue here is that it is hardly possible to create universal mapping to/from storage to the part of the store within the library implementation. But with persist
form with source
/target
, and little help of Effector API you can make it:
import { persist } from 'effector-storage/local'
const setX = createEvent()
const setY = createEvent()
const $coords = createStore({ x: 123, y: 321 })
.on(setX, ({ y }, x) => ({ x, y }))
.on(setY, ({ x }, y) => ({ x, y }))
// persist X coordinate in `localStorage` with key 'x'
persist({
source: $coords.map(({ x }) => x),
target: setX,
key: 'x',
})
// persist Y coordinate in `localStorage` with key 'y'
persist({
source: $coords.map(({ y }) => y),
target: setY,
key: 'y',
})
Use this approach with caution, beware of infinite circular updates. To avoid them, persist only plain values in storage. So, mapped store in source
will not trigger update, if object in original store has changed.
- localStorage support (docs: effector-storage/local)
- sessionStorage support (docs: effector-storage/session)
- query string support (docs: effector-storage/query)
- IndexedDB support
- AsyncStorage support
- Cookies support
- you name it support