react-localstorage-ts

A small layer over the browser's localstorage, fallbacks to an in-memory store if localstorage is not supported by the browser.

Built with fp-ts in mind, react-localstorage-ts gives you a standard way to access objects stored locally.

install

yarn

yarn add react-localstorage-ts

npm

npm install -S react-localstorage-ts

quick start

First create the hooks to read/write the values you just defined:

// localHooks.ts
import * as t from "io-ts"
import {
  makeUseLocalItem,
} from "react-localstorage-ts"
import {ThemeFlavour} from "./codecs"

export const useThemeFlavour = makeUseLocalItem(
  "theme",
  ThemeFlavour,
  { defaultValue: "light" },
)
export const useAccessToken = makeUseLocalItem("access_token", t.string)

then you use them in your react components:

// App.tsx
import * as React from "react"
import * as E from "fp-ts/Either"
import LightThemeApp from "./components/LightThemeApp"
import DarkThemeApp from "./components/DarkThemeApp"
import { useThemeFlavour } from "./localHooks"

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const [theme, setTheme] = useThemeFlavour()

  return pipe(
    theme,
    E.fold(
      () => {
        console.error('wrong value stored in localStorage!')
      },
      themeFlavour => {
        switch (themeFlavour) {
          case "light": {
            return <LightThemeApp />
          }
          case "dark": {
            return <DarkThemeApp />
          }
        }
      }
    )
  )
}

export default App

LocalValue

A new data structure is defined for items stored in localstorage, LocalValue. When dealing with a value stored in your localstorage there are three possibilities:

1. there is no value in your localstorage (optionality).
2. the value is present, but it is wrong (correctness).
3. the value is present and it is valid (also correctness).

LocalValue introduces a sum type that represents the optionality/correctness dicotomy:

export interface Absent {
  readonly _tag: "Absent"
}

export interface Invalid<E> {
  readonly _tag: "Invalid"
  readonly errors: E
}
export interface Valid<A> {
  readonly _tag: "Valid"
  readonly value: A
}

export type LocalValue<E, A> = Absent | Invalid<E> | Valid<A>

It also has instances for some of the most common type-classes and you can use it in the same way you usually use your usual fp-ts abstractions:

// LoginLayout.tsx
import * as LV from "react-localstorage-ts/LocalValue"
import { useAccessToken } from "./localHooks"
import { goToLoginPage } from "./router"
import App from "./App"

const LoginLayout: React.FC = ({ children }) => {
  const [token] = useAccessToken()

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (!LV.isValid) {
      goToLoginPage()
    }
  }, [])

  return pipe(
    token,
    LV.fold(() => null, () => null, () => <>{ children }</>), // N.B. when you don't want to deal with the "incorrect" cases, you can use fold2 and only define two handling funcitons
  )
}

// LoginPage.tsx
import * as LV from "react-localstorage-ts/LocalValue"
import { goToHomePage } from "./router"
import { useAccessToken } from "./localHooks"

const LoginPage: React.FC = ({ children }) => {
  const [token, setToken] = useAccessToken()

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (LV.isValid) {
      goToHomePage()
    }
  }, [])

  return (
    <Form
      onSubmit={
        (formValues) => api
          .getToken(formValues)
          .then(t => setToken(t))
      }
    />
  )
}

defining codecs

Given that browsers only allows you to store serialized data in string format, codecs must conform to the shape Codec<E, string, B>, where E is the shape of the decoding error, B is the shape of the runtime error and string is the type resulting after encoding.

N.B. this is only useful if you use io-ts.

As this kind of string conversion is very often just a JSON stringification of your encoded value, we export a utility that conveniently transform io-ts codecs into valid ones by first applying your encoding and then stringifying the result:

import { fromIoTsCodec } from "react-localstorage-ts/io-ts"

const WrongCodec = t.type({ s: t.string, d: DateFromISOString })

const CorrectCodec = fromIoTsCodec(WrongCodec)

updating localstorage from outside react components

If you want to update your localstorage from outside of a react component while still having your components "react" to the change, you can use the utilities getLocalElement, setLocalElement and removeLocalElement.

contributing

to commit to this repository there are a few rules:

• your commits must follow the conventional commit standard (it should be enforced by husky commit-msg hook).
• your code must be formatted using prettier.
• all tests must pass.

release flow

here you can find an explanation of the release flow.