Redux thunk fetch return undefined

Question

I'm new with Redux Thunk and I'm having problems with dispatch an action after fetching async call by click on button component.

actions.js

import fetch from 'isomorphic-fetch'

export const getPosts = (json) => {
    return {
        type: constant.GET_POSTS,
        payload: {
            data: json
        }
    }
}

export const loadPosts () => {
    return (dispatch) => {
        return fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts')
            .then(res => {
                res.json()
            }).then(json => {
                dispatch(getPosts(json))
            })
    }
}

button.js

class Button extends React.Component {

    clicked(){
        console.log(this.props.loadJsonPosts()) // got undefined here
    }
    render() {
        return(
            <button onClick={this.clicked.bind(this)}>click</button>
        )
    }
}

buttonContainer.js

import connect from 'react-redux/lib/components/connect'
import { loadPosts } from '../actions/actions.js'
import Button from '../components/Button'

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
    return {
        loadJsonPosts: () => { dispatch(loadPosts()) }
    }
}

export default connect(null, mapDispatchToProps)(Button)

reducer.js

import * as constant from '../constants/index'

let initialState = { postList: [] }

const reducer = (state = initialState, action) => {

    switch (action.type) {
        case constant.GET_POSTS: //here i call my loadPosts action
            state = Object.assign({}, { postList: [{ post: action.data }] })
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }

    return state
}

export default reducer

App.jsx

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import Main from './components/Main'
import thunk from 'redux-thunk'
import { createStore, applyMiddleware  } from 'redux'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import reducer from './reducers/reducer'
const store = createStore(
    reducer,
    applyMiddleware(thunk)
)

class App extends Component {
    render() {
        return(
            <Provider store={store}>
                <Main />
            </Provider>
        )
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(
    <App />,
    document.getElementById('app')
)

I can't figure out why i get undefined, maybe I've missed something or I've wrong the approach

Answer 1

You forgot to return res.json() in actions.js for the next then block. it should be

export const loadPosts () => {
return (dispatch) => {
    return fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts')
        .then(res => {
            return res.json();
        }).then(json => {
            dispatch(getPosts(json))
        })
      }}

or you can skip the return statement by removing the blocks by writing .then(res => res.json())

Answer 2

I the same issue and found that ensuring the thunk middleware was first in my chain when creating the redux store allowed me to access the promise I was after rather than getting undefined,

store = createStore(
            rootReducer, 
            initialState,
            applyMiddleware(thunk, otherMiddleware1, otherMiddleware2)
        );