Another way to ask would be, if you really only want to start your app up with the data saved in localStorage (rehydrate) and save every redux state change to localStorage (persist) is using redux-persist any better to using your own solution like Dan Abramov explains here ?
I understand redux-persist comes with a lot of other features, and I myself started using it to be able to use redux-persist-crosstab (to be able to deal with changes between apps running in different tabs), but I wonder if it's overkill to use it for the most basic scenario. Especially since it's harder to understand and sometimes does funny stuff, like calling persist/REHYDRATE randomly.
Am I missing anything obvious here?
Thanks
The usage of redux-persist
depends upon the use case of the application.
First let me highlight some of the main features of redux-persist
Usage of PersistGate which automatically provides delay in rendering of the components
until the state gets persisted
along with the usage to show the loading
component.
Custom functions to persist based on multiple types such as persistStore
, persistReducer
and persistObject
AutoMerging
of the initialStates
from the different states based on shallow
and deep
levels
Probably the most important feature of blacklisting
and whitelisting
the reducers
Nested Persistance for shallow
level persistance
and deep
level persistance
Persisting with migrations
to store different versions of the redux-store
.
Transforms to support immutable, compression, encrypt, filter, etc.
Considering the application
you build is just for development
purposes, then it would require at most PersistGate
, persistStore
and probably blacklist
and whitelist
of the reducers, which would still be considerable amount of work considering that you are aware what you might need for your application.
Now for the applications that are production
level and are prone to scaling, then it would be requiring atleast 5 / 7
features that I have listed above. Without this module you might need to install modules for compression, encryption and much more, find a way to gracefully store different versions of the redux-store
and retrieve
and display
what might fit your requirement, along with the rehydration
of that redux-store
state.
There are many more implications to this, which will be encountered later on. Therefore based on the requirements of the project, i think it would be beneficial to use this package, to manage the redux-store storage