React/Redux where to set sessionStorage

Question

I'm working on my first react/redux app and I'm not sure where I should call sessionStorage.setItem(). I'm currently storing user credentials from a loginUserSuccess() action but I'm not sure this is where I should be doing that. Furthermore, I'm using fetch to make requests and would like to add the user's authToken to all requests. I was looking into fetch-intercept but not much documentation is provided for modifying headers.

actions/loginActions.js

export function loginUser(user) {
  return function(dispatch) {
    return LoginApi.login(user).then(creds => {
      dispatch(loginUserSuccess(creds));
    }).catch(error => {
      throw(error);
    });
  };
}

export function loginUserSuccess(creds) {
  sessionStorage.setItem('credentials', JSON.stringify(creds));
  return {
    type: types.LOGIN_USER_SUCCESS,
    state: creds
  }
}

api/packageApi.js

class PackageApi {
  // called on successful login
  static getAllPackages() {
    const request = new Request('/my/endpoint', {
      method: 'GET',
      headers: new Headers({
        'AUTHORIZATION': `Bearer ${JSON.parse(sessionStorage.credentials).authToken}`
      })
    });
    return fetch(request).then(response => {
      return response.json();
    }).catch(error => {
      return error;
    });
  }
}

export default PackageApi;

Lecompte

Possible duplicate of Where to write to localStorage in a Redux app? – Cathedral

Answer 1

Taking into consideration Dan Abramov's explanation we have the following:

store/sessionStorage.js

export const loadState = () => {
  try {
    const serializedState = sessionStorage.getItem('state');

    if (serializedState === null) {
      return undefined;
    }

    return JSON.parse(serializedState);
  } catch (error) {
    return undefined;
  }
};

export const saveState = (state) => {
  try {
    const serializedState = JSON.stringify(state);
    sessionStorage.setItem('state', serializedState);
  } catch (error) {
    // Ignore write errors.
  }
};

store/index.js

import { createStore } from 'redux';
import rootReducer from '../reducers';
import { loadState, saveState } from './sessionStorage';

const persistedState = loadState();
const store = createStore(rootReducer, persistedState);

store.subscribe(() => {
  saveState(store.getState());
});

Full explanation: https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-redux-persisting-the-state-to-the-local-storage

Gonfalon

For Redux Toolkit's configureStore instead of createStore line just pass persistedState value into preloadedState option of ConfigureStoreOptions object like this: const store = configureStore({preloadedState: loadState(), reducer: ...}). – Tatianatatianas

Answer 2

Think about a sessionStorage as just one more store. This store needs to be synced with the Redux one so it works properly. I think the reducer is the right place. That is where you have data changes and data initialization.

Fiveandten