25. Creating Data on the Server
Updating the Fake API
Some new functions were added to our fake API client for the next few lessons.
The first new fake API endpoint is called addTodo. It simulates a network connection, and then it creates a new todo object. It puts the todo with the given text into the fake database, and it returns the todo object, just like REST endpoints normally do.
addTodo Endpoint
export const addTodo = (text) =>
delay(500).then(() => {
const todo = {
id: v4(),
text,
completed: false,
};
fakeDatabase.todos.push(todo);
return todo;
});
The second fake API endpoint I is called toggleTodo. It also simulates a network connection, and it finds the corresponding todo in the fake database and flips its completed field, also returning the todo as the response.
toggleTodo Endpoint
export const toggleTodo = (id) =>
delay(500).then(() => {
const todo = fakeDatabase.todos.find(t => t.id === id);
todo.completed = !todo.completed;
return todo;
});
Updating the "Add Todo" Process
In this lesson, we will make the add todo button called the addTodo fake API endpoint.
Inside our action creators file, we will no longer need the v4 function from node-uuid because the id generation will now occur on the server.
The addTodo action creator will be changed to be a thunk action creator, so we will add dispatch as a curried argument. The thunk will call the API's addTodo endpoint with the given text, and wait for the response to come back.
When the response is available, it will dispatch an action with the type 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS', and the server response.
Updated addTodo Action
export const addTodo = (text) => (dispatch) =>
api.addTodo(text).then(response => {
dispatch({
type: 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS',
response,
});
});
Updating the byId Reducer
Since the newly added todo will be part of the server response, we need to change the byId reducer to merge the todo into the lookup table that it manages.
I am adding a new case for the 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS' action. We'll use the object spread operator to create a new version of the lookup table, where under the action response ID key, there is a new todo object that I read from action response.
// Inside reducers/byId.js
const byId = (state = {}, action) => {
switch (action.type) {
case 'FETCH_TODOS_SUCCESS':
const nextState = { ...state };
action.response.forEach(todo => {
nextState[todo.id] = todo;
});
return nextState;
case 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS': // Our new case
return {
...state,
[action.response.id]: action.response,
};
default:
return state;
}
};
However, we have not updated the list by filter, so all still only has three IDs in the list. If I go to another tab, the new todo appears because its ID is now included in the list of fetched IDs, and similarly, if I go back to the previous tab, it appears now because the data has been re-fetched.
Updating createList
Since the list of IDs for each tab is managed by a reducer defined inside createlist.js, we need to update our ids reducer to handle the 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS' action.
When we receive a confirmation that the todo has been added on the server, we can return a new list of IDs with existing IDs in the beginning, and a newly added ID at the end.
Unlike the other actions, 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS' does not have a filter property on the action object, our current if (filter !== action.filter) check inside of ids would fail. Because of this, we will replace the existing check with different checks in different cases.
For FETCH_TODOS_SUCCESS, we want to replace the fetched IDs if the filter in the action matches the filter of this list.
However, for ADD_TODO_SUCCESS, we want the newly added todo to appear in every list except the completed filter, because a newly added todo is not completed.
const createList = (filter) => {
const ids = (state = [], action) => {
switch (action.type) {
case 'FETCH_TODOS_SUCCESS':
return filter === action.filter ?
action.response.map(todo => todo.id) :
state;
case 'ADD_TODO_SUCCESS':
return filter !== 'completed' ?
[...state, action.response.id] :
state;
default:
return state;
}
};