Reduxish

Two of my biggest challenges with Redux are:

1. creating multiple copies of the same component without having namespace collisions

2. the decoupling of where a components state lived in the global state and having to connect that component to the global state.

Well, long story short, here's a potential solution that solves both of these issues. It's basically the Elm 0.16 Architecture without being so rigorously functional.

Basically, you define static methods on your component classes for initand reducer. Each component also gets dispatch and state as props. Then you can wrap and unwrap actions while composing the initial state and reducers in order to namespace each component.

There are 4 examples which are grouped in src/index.js. Uncomment only one block to run that example. To get it running, just run npm install && npm start.

This example is also specific using redux-thunk middleware -- check out how wrapAction works in src/utils.js.

The biggest trade-off to this approach over vanilla Redux is that every component now has strict encapsulation. That is, actions are no longer global. So if you import a component and dispatch one of it's actions, it's likely that nothing will happen because that component's state / action namespace might not be top-level. But that all makes sense because the problem we were trying to solve in the first place is that we couldn't render multiple independent copies of a single component!