I am trying to design a notification component where notifications will appear on certain occasions (like connections problems, successful modifications, etc.).
I need the notifications to disappear after a couple of seconds, so I am triggering a state change to delete the notification from Redux state from setTimeout
inside the notification's componentDidMount
.
I can see that the state does change, but React-Redux is not re-rendering the parent component so the notification still appears on the DOM.
Here is my Redux reducer:
const initialState = {
notifications: []
}
export default function (state = initialState, action) {
switch(action.type) {
case CLEAR_SINGLE_NOTIFICATION:
return Object.assign ({}, state, {
notifications: deleteSingleNotification(state.notifications, action.payload)
})
case CLEAR_ALL_NOTIFICATIONS:
return Object.assign ({}, state, {
notifications: []
})
default:
return state
}
}
function deleteSingleNotification (notifications, notificationId) {
notifications.some (function (notification, index) {
return (notifications [index] ['id'] === notificationId) ?
!!(notifications.splice(index, 1)) :
false;
})
return notifications;
}
and my React components (Main
and Notification
):
/* MAIN.JS */
class Main extends Component {
renderDeletedVideoNotifications() {
console.log('rendering notifications');
const clearNotification = this.props.clearNotification;
return this.props.notifications.map((notification)=> {
return <Notification
key={notification.id}
message={notification.message}
style={notification.style}
clearNotification={clearNotification}
notificationId={notification.id}
/>
});
}
render() {
console.log('rerendering');
return (
<div className="_main">
<Navbar location={this.props.location} logStatus={this.props.logStatus}
logOut={this.logout.bind(this)}/>
<div className="_separator"></div>
{this.props.children}
<BottomStack>
{this.renderDeletedVideoNotifications()}
</BottomStack>
</div>
);
}
}
function mapStateToProps(state) {
return {logStatus: state.logStatus, notifications: state.notifications.notifications};
}
function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
return bindActionCreators({checkLogStatus, logOut, clearNotification, clearAllNotifications}, dispatch);
}
export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Main);
/* NOTIFICATION.JS */
export default class Notification extends Component{
constructor(props){
super(props);
this.state = {show: true}
}
componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps){
if(nextProps.message){
this.setState({show: true});
}
}
clearNotification(notificationId){
this.props.clearNotifications(notificationId);
}
componentDidMount(){
console.log('notification mount');
setTimeout(()=>{
console.log('timed out');
this.props.clearNotification(this.props.notificationId);
}, 1000);
}
closeNotification(){
this.props.clearNotification(this.props.notificationId);
this.setState({show: false});
}
render(){
const notificationStyles = () =>{
if (this.props.style === "error"){
return {backgroundColor: 'rgba(152, 5, 19, 0.8)'}
}
return {backgroundColor: 'rgba(8, 130, 101, 0.8)'}
};
if(!this.state.show){
return null;
}
return (
<div className="notification" style={notificationStyles()}>
<div className="notificationCloseButton" onClick={this.closeNotification.bind(this)}>
<i className="material-icons">close</i>
</div>
{this.props.message}
</div>
)
}
};