I am developing a Reactjs web application from scratch and encountered a tricky situation which i need help with. Whenever i navigate away from a particular url and navigate back, my redux store does not seem to be connected.
routes.js
const RouteList = () => (
<main>
<Switch>
<Route path="/abc/" exact component={withRouter(HomePage)} />
<Route path="/abc/xyz" exact component={withRouter(XYZPage)} />
<Redirect from="/" to="/abc/" />
<Route component={Error} />
</Switch>
</main>
);
export default RouteList;
App.js
class App extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {};
}
render () {
return (
<Router history={browserHistory}>
<div>
<Header />
<RouteList />
<Footer />
</div>
</Router>
);
}
}
export default App;
Header.js
const Header = () => {
return (
<Navbar expand="md">
<NavbarBrand tag={NavLink} to="/">
<img src={brandImage} style={{marginRight: "0", width: "40px", height: "40px"}} /><strong style={{color: "#457B9D"}} >Datum</strong>
</NavbarBrand>
<Nav className="mr-auto" navbar>
<NavItem>
<NavLink className="nav-link" to={"/abc/xyz"} >XYZ</NavLink>
</NavItem>
</Nav>
</Navbar>
);
};
export default withRouter(Header);
When i hit the NavLink which will take me to url: /"abc/xyz", it will take me to XYZPage.js
XYZPage.js
class XYZPage extends React.Component {
constructor(props, context) {
super(props, context);
this.state = {
activeTab: "1"
};
this.toggle = this.toggle.bind(this);
}
toggle(tab) {
if (this.state.activeTab !== tab) {
this.setState({
activeTab: tab
});
}
}
render () {
return (
<main>
<div className="container-fluid pt-3">
<Nav tabs>
<NavItem>
<NavLink
className={classnames({active: this.state.activeTab === "1"})}
onClick={() => {this.toggle("1"); }} >
AAA
</NavLink>
</NavItem>
<NavItem>
<NavLink
className={classnames({active: this.state.activeTab === "2"})}
onClick={() => {this.toggle("2"); }} >
BBB
</NavLink>
</NavItem>
<NavItem>
<NavLink
className={classnames({active: this.state.activeTab === "3"})}
onClick={() => {this.toggle("3"); }} >
CCC
</NavLink>
</NavItem>
</Nav>
<TabContent activeTab={this.state.activeTab}>
<TabPane tabId="1">
<Row>
<AAAPAge/>
</Row>
</TabPane>
<TabPane tabId="2">
<Row>
<BBBPage/>
</Row>
</TabPane>
<TabPane tabId="3">
<Row>
<CCCPage/>
</Row>
</TabPane>
</TabContent>
</div>
</main>
);
}
}
export default withRouter(XYZPage);
Each of the AAAPage, BBBPage & CCCPage are components which needs to have some pre-populated dropdowns which i declared in my index.js below:
index.js
const store = configureStore();
store.dispatch(loadAAA());
store.dispatch(loadBBB());
store.dispatch(loadCCC());
render((
<Provider store={store}>
<BrowserRouter>
<App />
</BrowserRouter>
</Provider>
), document.getElementById('app'));
loadAAA, loadBBB & loadCCC are all thunks
The configureStore() method is as such:
export default function configureStore(initialState) {
return createStore(
rootReducer,
initialState,
composeWithDevTools(
applyMiddleware(thunk, reduxImmutableStateInvariant()),
)
);
}
To shorten this post i give a sample of my AAAPage as the others are of similar structure:
AAAPage.js:
class AAAPage extends React.Component {
constructor(props, context) {
super(props, context);
this.state = {...};
}
componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {...}
render() {
[...]
return (
<Container fluid>
<Row>
<AAAInputForm
// Data from Store is passed here
/>
</Row>
{ChildComponent}
</Container>
);
}
}
AAAPage.propTypes = {
DATA: PropTypes.array
};
function mapStateToProps(state, ownProps) {
let DATA = [];
if (state.AAAReducer.length > 0) {
DATA = state.AAAReducer;
}
return {
DATA: DATA
};
}
export default withRouter(connect(mapStateToProps)(AAAPage));
AAAReducer.js:
export default function AAAReducer(state=initialState.AAAList, action) {
switch(action.type) {
case types.LOAD_AAA_SUCCESS:
return action.AAAList;
default:
return state;
}
}
AAAAction.js:
export function loadAAASuccess(AAAList) {
return {
type: types.LOAD_AAA_SUCCESS,
AAAList: AAAlList
};
}
// thunk
export function loadAAA() {
// A thunk will always return a function that accepts a dispatch
return function(dispatch) {
return apiCall("ALL").then(response => {
dispatch(loadAAASuccess(response.data.AAA));
}).catch(error => {
throw(error);
});
};
}
initialState.js:
export default {
AAAList: [],
BBBList: [],
CCCList: []
};
At this point i believe i provided enough background to my code. I followed tutorials when designing this redux store and I am not sure why when i navigate from "/abc/xyz" to "/abc" and back, or when i navigate to "/abc/xyz" from "/abc", my stores are empty although i called the loadAAA() method at my index.js. All the other pages are affected as well. However, when i hit "/abc/xyz" directly, my stores are connected and my dropdowns are populated. What is happening? Is it because of my lifecycle methods?
I am using react v15.6.2, redux v3.7.2 & redux-thunk v2.3.0.
Thanks for the guidance.
