Releases: reduxjs/redux-toolkit
v1.3.5
This release adds the ability to cancel async thunks before execution, improves TS thunk types, and fixes a broken middleware option name change.
Changes
Async Thunk Cancellation
The createAsyncThunk API already had support for signaling cancellation of in-progress requests via an AbortController. However, there was no way to skip executing the payload creator callback itself, or skip dispatching the pending action.
We've added a condition option to createAsyncThunk that allows you to run checks before the payload creator is executed, and bail out of the thunk entirely if desired by returning false:
const fetchUserById = createAsyncThunk(
'users/fetchByIdStatus',
async (userId, thunkAPI) => {
const response = await userAPI.fetchById(userId)
return response.data
},
{
condition: (userId, { getState, extra }) => {
const { users } = getState()
const fetchStatus = users.requests[userId]
if (fetchStatus === 'fulfilled' || fetchStatus === 'loading') {
// Already fetched or in progress, don't need to re-fetch
return false
}
}
}
)Thunk Typing Improvements
We've updated the createAsyncThunk TS types to fix an issue when there is no thunk argument, and to make it easier to wrap createAsyncThunk in your own abstractions. See #486 / #489 for the issues and #502 / #512 for the updates.
Immutable Middleware Options
When we inlined the immutable check middleware, we ended up changing the ignore option name to ignoredPaths. We've added handling for ignore for backwards compatibility just in case anyone was relying on that. We've also better documented the options for the serializable check middleware. See #491, #492, and #510 .
Changelog
- allow to skip AsyncThunks using a condition callback (@phryneas - #513)
- payloadCreator arg argument => asyncThunk arg type (@phryneas - #502)
- export AsyncThunkPayloadCreator type (@phryneas - #512)
- Update docs, add test, alias ignore->ignoredPaths (@msutkowski - #492)
- Add missing parameters to docs for serializable middleware (@msutkowski - #510)
v1.3.4
This release updates our internal nanoid implementation, and exports it for general usage.
Changes
Export nanoid
The new createAsyncThunk API we added in v1.3.0 auto-generates a unique request ID every time it's called, so that your reducers can distinguish between separate calls if necessary. To do this, we inlined a copy of the nanoid/non-secure API into RTK.
The nanoid library just released a new version, so we've updated our inlined copy to match the implementation of nanoid/non-secure as of 3.0.2.
Since the API is already in the codebase, we've exported it publicly in case it's useful. Usage:
import { nanoid } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'
console.log(nanoid())
// 'dgPXxUz_6fWIQBD8XmiSy'Changelog
- Update nanoid and export it (@markerikson - #481)
v1.3.3
This release improves serializability checking in actions, and exports additional types.
Changes
Action Serializability Checks
The serializability check middleware checks the contents of all dispatched actions. When we added createAsyncThunk in 1.3, we tried to exclude the meta.args path from those checks, because users may want to pass non-serializable values to their thunks, and the args are automatically added to the actions without the user explicitly putting them there.
However, the field name was changed from meta.args to meta.arg late in development, and the middleware wasn't updated to match, leading to some false positive warnings. We've fixed that, and added additional middleware options for ignoring paths in actions.
Type Exports
Per request, we've exported ThunkDispatch from Redux Thunk, and the rest of the internal typedefs related to entities.
Changelog
v1.3.2
When we inlined the immutability check middleware in 1.3.0, we documented the createImmutableInvariantMiddleware API, but forgot to export it. That's been fixed.
Changelog
v1.3.1
This release adds additional argument types for some createEntityAdapter CRUD methods.
Changes
createEntityAdapter Insertion APIs
createEntityAdapter generates three methods that can insert entity objects: setAll, addMany, and upsertMany. All three of them accept an array of entities.
We expect that a common use case will be to pre-normalize an API response using normalizr, put the parsed entities into an action, and then handle action.payload.articles in a reducer. However, in that case, action.payload.articles is a pre-normalized object, not an array. While you could do articlesAdapter.addMany(state, Object.values(action.payload.articles)), we decided to make those three methods accept a normalized object in addition to an array, allowing articlesAdapter.addMany(state, action.payload.articles) to work correctly.
createEntityAdapter Usage Guide Docs
We've also added usage guide examples for createEntityAdapter as well.
Changelog
- Add basic createEntityAdapter usage docs (@msutkowski - #442)
- Add dictionary support to createEntityAdapter many methods (@msutkowski - #444)
v1.3.0
This release adds two new APIs: createEntityAdapter to help manage normalized state, and createAsyncThunk to abstract common data fetching behavior.
It also improves bundle size by inlining some of our prior dependencies and fixing cases where dev APIs were accidentally being included in production, as well as using a new version of Immer that tree-shakes better.
Finally, we've improved the developer experience by tweaking our TS typings for better inference and updating the dev check middleware to warn if checks are taking too much time.
New APIs
One of the primary goals for Redux Toolkit has always been to simplify common use cases and reduce "boilerplate" by providing APIs that can replace code you were previously writing out by hand.
To that end, v1.3.0 adds two new APIs for the common use cases of async data fetching and managing normalized data in the store.
createAsyncThunk
The Redux docs have taught that async logic should typically dispatch "three-phase async actions" while doing data fetching: a "start" action before the request is made so that loading UI can be displayed, and then a "success" or "failure" action to handle loading the data or showing an error message. Writing these extra action types is tedious, as is writing thunks that dispatch these actions and differ only by what the async request is.
Given that this is a very common pattern, we've added a createAsyncThunk API that abstracts this out. It accepts a base action type string and a callback function that returns a Promise, which is primarily intended to be a function that does a data fetch and returns a Promise containing the results. It then auto-generates the request lifecycle action types / creators, and generates a thunk that dispatches those lifecycle actions and runs the fetching callback.
From there, you can listen for those generated action types in your reducers, and handle loading state as desired.
createEntityAdapter
The Redux docs have also advised storing data in a "normalized" state shape, which typically means keeping each type of item in a structure that looks like {ids: [], entities: {} }. However, the Redux core provides no APIs to help manage storing and updating your data using this approach. Many community libraries exist, with varying tradeoffs, but so far we haven't officially recommended any of them.
Caching data is a hard problem, and not one that we are interested in trying to solve ourselves. However, given that we do recommend this specific pattern, and that Redux Toolkit is intended to help simplify common use cases, we want to provide a minimal set of functionality to help users manage normalized state.
To help solve this, we've specifically ported the @ngrx/entity library to work with Redux Toolkit, with some modifications.
The core API function is createEntityAdapter. It generates a set of reducer functions and selectors that know how to work with data that has been stored in that normalized {ids: [], entities: {} } format, and can be customized by passing in a function that returns the ID field for a given item. If you want to keep the item IDs in a sorted order, a comparison function can also be passed in.
The returned EntityAdapter object contains generated CRUD functions for manipulating items within that state, and generated selector functions that know how to read from that state. You can then use the generated CRUD functions and selectors within your own code.
There is one very important difference between RTK's implementation and the original @ngrx/entity implementation. With @ngrx/entity, methods like addOne(item, state) accept the data argument first and the state second. With RTK, the argument order has been flipped, so that the methods look like addOne(state, item), and the methods can also accept a standard Redux Toolkit PayloadAction containing the data as the second argument. This allows them to be used as Redux case reducers directly, such as passing them in the reducers argument for createSlice. They can also be used as "mutating" helper functions inside createReducer and createSlice as well, thanks to use of Immer internally.
Documentation
We've added new API reference and usage guide sections to the Redux Toolkit docs to cover these new APIs:
- Usage:
- API reference:
Bundle Size Improvements and Dependency Updates
Immer 6.0
Immer has always been the largest chunk of code added to your bundle from using RTK. Until now, RTK specifically depended on Immer 4.x, since 5.x added support for handling Maps and Sets (which aren't useful in a Redux app) and that support added to its bundle size.
Immer's code was written in a way that kept it from tree-shaking properly. Fortunately, Immer author Michel Weststrate put in some amazing work refactoring the code to better support tree-shaking, and his efforts are now available as Immer 6.0.
Per the Immer documentation on customizing Immer's capabilities, Immer now uses a plugin architecture internally, and additional functionality has to be explicitly enabled as an opt-in. There are currently three Immer plugins that can be enabled: ES5 support (for environments without ES6 Proxies), Map/Set support, and JSON Patch support.
Redux Toolkit force-enables ES5 support. This is because we expect RTK to be used in multiple environments that do not support Proxies, such as Internet Explorer and React Native. It's also how Immer previously behaved, so we want to keep that behavior consistent and not break code given that this is a minor release of RTK. (In a hypothetical future major release, we may stop force-enabling the ES5 plugin and ask you to do it if necessary.)
Overall, this should drop a couple KB off your app's minified bundle size.
You may choose to enable the other plugins in your app code if that functionality is desired.
Store Configuration Dependencies
Since its creation, RTK has depended on leoasis/redux-immutable-state-invariant to throw errors if accidental mutations are detected, and the zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension NPM package to handle setup and configuration of the Redux DevTools Extension as the store is created.
Unfortunately, neither of these dependencies is currently published as ES Modules, and we recently found out that the immutable middleware was actually being included in production bundles despite our attempts to ensure it is excluded.
Given that the repo for the immutable middleware has had no activity in the last 3 years, we've opted to fork the package and include the code directly inside Redux Toolkit. We've also inlined the tiny-invariant and json-stringify-safe packages that the immutable middleware depended on.
The DevTools setup package, while tiny, suffers from the same issue, and so we've forked it as well.
Based on tests locally, these changes should reduce your production bundle sizes by roughly 2.5K minified.
During the development process, we found that the serializable invariant middleware was partly being included in production. We've decided that both the immutable and serializable middleware should always be no-ops in prod if they're ever included, both to ensure minimum bundle size, and to eliminate any unwanted slowdowns.
Other Changes
Type Inference Improvements
Users reported that it was possible to pass an entity adapter update method as a case reducer even if the slice state type didn't match what the update method expected (#434 ). We've updated the TS types to prevent that from being possible.
We've also had a number of cases where users had issues with the typings for action payloads depending on whether strictNullChecks: false was set. We've altered our action creator types to improve that behavior.
Dev Check Middleware Timings
The immutability and serializability dev check middleware both do deep checks of state on every dispatch in dev mode. With a large state tree, this can sometimes noticeably slow down the app, and it's not immediately clear that the dev check middleware are responsible for this.
We've updated both middleware to record how much time is spent actually performing the state checks, and they will now log warning messages if the checks take too long to give you a heads-up that you might want to alter the middleware settings or disable them entirely. The delay is configurable, and defaults to 32ms (two UI frames).
In addition, the serializable middleware now ignores meta.args in every action by default. This is because createAsyncThunk automatically takes any arguments to its payload creator function and inserts them into dispatched actions. Since a user may be reasonably passing non-serializable values as arguments, and they're not intentionally inserting those...
v1.3.0-beta.1
This release improves type inference for action creators and for entity adapters that are used as reducers, adds warnings if dev check middleware are taking excessive amounts of time, and adds a new selectById entity selector.
Changes
Type Inference Improvements
Users reported that it was possible to pass an entity adapter update method as a case reducer even if the slice state type didn't match what the update method expected (#434 ). We've updated the TS types to prevent that from being possible.
We've also had a number of cases where users had issues with the typings for action payloads depending on whether strictNullChecks: false was set. We've altered our action creator types to improve that behavior.
Meanwhile, we've also re-exported the TS types from Reselect for convenience.
Dev Check Middleware Timings
The immutability and serializability dev check middleware both do deep checks of state on every dispatch in dev mode. With a large state tree, this can sometimes noticeably slow down the app, and it's not immediately clear that the dev check middleware are responsible for this.
We've updated both middleware to record how much time is spent actually performing the state checks, and they will now log warning messages if the checks take too long to give you a heads-up that you might want to alter the middleware settings or disable them entirely. The delay is configurable, and defaults to 32ms (two UI frames).
Entity Adapter API Changes
We've added a selectById selector to createEntityAdapter for convenience.
We've also removed the map() update method, which accepted a callback that returned changes to be applied. It couldn't be used as a reducer (the action would be non-serializable), it's easily re-implemented in userland using the updateMany() update method, and the name map implied a potentially completely different return type of a non-mutating copy, which is not what it actually did.
Changelog
v1.3.0 Beta 0
This release adds two new APIs: createEntityAdapter to help manage normalized state, and createAsyncThunk to abstract common data fetching behavior.
It also improves bundle size by fixing cases where APIs were accidentally being included in production and inlining some of our prior dependencies, as well as using a new version of Immer that tree-shakes better.
Note: this is a beta release. We feel that the APIs are stable and are hopefully ready for a final release soon, and they have been documented and tested. However, we'd still like some additional feedback from users before publishing a final release.
Please comment in issue #373: Roadmap: RTK v1.3.0 with any feedback on using these new APIs.
This version is available as @reduxjs/toolkit@beta on NPM, or @reduxjs/[email protected].
New APIs
createAsyncThunk
The Redux docs have taught that async logic should typically dispatch "three-phase async actions" while doing data fetching: a "start" action before the request is made so that loading UI can be displayed, and then a "success" or "failure" action to handle loading the data or showing an error message. Writing these extra action types is tedious, as is writing thunks that dispatch these actions and differ only by what the async request is.
Given that this is a very common pattern, we've added a createAsyncThunk API that abstracts this out. It accepts a base action type string and a callback function that returns a Promise, which is primarily intended to be a function that does a data fetch and returns a Promise containing the results. It then auto-generates the request lifecycle action types / creators, and generates a thunk that dispatches those lifecycle actions and runs the fetching callback.
From there, you can listen for those generated action types in your reducers, and handle loading state as desired.
createEntityAdapter
The Redux docs have also advised storing data in a "normalized" state shape, which typically means keeping each type of item in a structure that looks like {ids: [], entities: {} }. However, the Redux core provides no APIs to help manage storing and updating your data using this approach. Many community libraries exist, with varying tradeoffs, but so far we haven't officially recommended any of them.
Caching data is a hard problem, and not one that we are interested in trying to solve ourselves. However, given that we do recommend this specific pattern, and that Redux Toolkit is intended to help simplify common use cases, we want to provide a minimal set of functionality to help users manage normalized state.
To help solve this, we've specifically ported the @ngrx/entity library to work with Redux Toolkit, with some modifications.
The core API function is createEntityAdapter. It generates a set of reducer functions and selectors that know how to work with data that has been stored in that normalized {ids: [], entities: {} } format, and can be customized by passing in a function that returns the ID field for a given item. If you want to keep the item IDs in a sorted order, a comparison function can also be passed in.
The returned EntityAdapter object contains generated CRUD functions for manipulating items within that state, and generated selector functions that know how to read from that state. You can then use the generated CRUD functions and selectors within your own code.
There is one very important difference between RTK's implementation and the original @ngrx/entity implementation. With @ngrx/entity, methods like addOne(item, state) accept the data argument first and the state second. With RTK, the argument order has been flipped, so that the methods look like addOne(state, item), and the methods can also accept a standard Redux Toolkit PayloadAction containing the data as the second argument. This allows them to be used as Redux case reducers directly, such as passing them in the reducers argument for createSlice. They can also be used as "mutating" helper functions inside createReducer and createSlice as well, thanks to use of Immer internally.
Documentation
See our beta API reference and usage guide docs for details:
- Usage:
- API reference:
Bundle Size Improvements and Dependency Updates
Immer 6.0
Immer has always been the largest chunk of code added to your bundle from using RTK. Until now, RTK specifically depended on Immer 4.x, since 5.x added support for handling Maps and Sets (which aren't useful in a Redux app) and that support added to its bundle size.
Immer's code was written in a way that kept it from tree-shaking properly. Fortunately, Immer author Michel Weststrate put in some amazing work refactoring the code to better support tree-shaking, and his efforts are now available as Immer 6.0.
Per the Immer documentation on customizing Immer's capabilities, Immer now uses a plugin architecture internally, and additional functionality has to be explicitly enabled as an opt-in. There are currently three Immer plugins that can be enabled: ES5 support (for environments without ES6 Proxies), Map/Set support, and JSON Patch support.
Redux Toolkit force-enables ES5 support. This is because we expect RTK to be used in multiple environments that do not support Proxies, such as Internet Explorer and React Native. It's also how Immer previously behaved, so we want to keep that behavior consistent and not break code given that this is a minor release of RTK. (In a hypothetical future major release, we may stop force-enabling the ES5 plugin and ask you to do it if necessary.)
Overall, this should drop a couple KB off your app's minified bundle size.
You may choose to enable the other plugins in your app code if that functionality is desired.
Store Configuration Dependencies
Since its creation, RTK has depended on leoasis/redux-immutable-state-invariant to throw errors if accidental mutations are detected, and the zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension NPM package to handle setup and configuration of the Redux DevTools Extension as the store is created.
Unfortunately, neither of these dependencies is currently published as ES Modules, and we recently found out that the immutable middleware was actually being included in production bundles despite our attempts to ensure it is excluded.
Given that the repo for the immutable middleware has had no activity in the last 3 years, we've opted to fork the package and include the code directly inside Redux Toolkit. We've also inlined the tiny-invariant and json-stringify-safe packages that the immutable middleware depended on.
The DevTools setup package, while tiny, suffers from the same issue, and so we've forked it as well.
Based on tests locally, these changes should reduce your production bundle sizes by roughly 2.5K minified.
Changes since Alpha
This beta release has a few additional changes since the 1.3.0-alpha.10 release.
createAsyncThunk Error Handling Improvements
We've spent a lot of time going over the error handling semantics for createAsyncThunk to ensure that errors can be handled outside the thunk, be correctly typed, and that validation errors from a server can be processed correctly. We also now detect if AbortController is available in the environment, and if not, provide a tiny polyfill that suggests adding a real polyfill to your application.
See PR #393: createAsyncThunk: reject with typed value for much of the discussion and work, as well as the API reference docs.
Middleware Updates
We found that the serializable invariant middleware was partly being included in production. We've decided that both the immutable and serializable middleware should always be no-ops in prod, both to ensure minimum bundle size, and to eliminate any unwanted slowdowns.
In addition, the serializable middleware now ignores meta.args in every action by default. This is because createAsyncThunk automatically takes any arguments to its payload creator function and inserts them into dispatched actions. Since a user may be reasonably passing non-serializable values as arguments, and they're not intentionally inserting those into actions themselves, it seems sensible to ignore any potential non-serializable values in that field.
Immer 6 final
We've updated Immer 6 from an alpha build to its final 6.0.1 release. This fixes the ability to use RTK with TS 3.5 and 3.6, as Immer has re-added typings support for those TS versions.
Other Changes
TypeScript Support...
v.1.3.0-alpha.10
This release reduces bundle sizes by updating to the latest Immer 6 alpha to help reduce bundle sizes and inlining the nanoid dependency.
Note: Due to the Immer upgrade, this RTK alpha version requires at least TypeScript 3.7 if you are consuming it in a TypeScript app. The final version of RTK 1.3 will hopefully support TS 3.5+ once immerjs/immer#541 has been merged in.
Changes
Bundle Size Improvements
Immer has always been the largest chunk of code added to your bundle from using RTK. Until now, RTK specifically depended on Immer 4.x, since 5.x added support for handling Maps and Sets (which aren't useful in a Redux app) and that support added to its bundle size.
Immer's code was written in a way that kept it from tree-shaking properly. Fortunately, Immer author Michel Weststrate has been hard at work refactoring the code to better support tree-shaking, and his effort are now available as Immer 6.x alpha.
Per the updated Immer alpha installation docs, Immer now uses a plugin architecture internally, and additional functionality has to be explicitly enabled as an opt-in. There are currently three Immer plugins that can be enabled: ES5 support (for environments without ES6 Proxies), Map/Set support, and JSON Patch support.
In this alpha, Redux Toolkit force-enables ES5 support. This is because we expect RTK to be used in multiple environments that do not support Proxies, such as Internet Explorer and React Native. It's also how Immer previously behaved, so we want to keep that behavior consistent and not break code given that this is a minor release of RTK. (In a hypothetical future major release, we may stop force-enabling the ES5 plugin and ask you to do it if necessary.)
Overall, this should drop a couple KB off your app's minified bundle size.
You may choose to enable the other plugins in your app code if that functionality is desired.
Inlined nanoid
We received reports that the nanoid library, which we used for generating unique request IDs in createAsyncThunk, prints warnings on React Native due to a lack of crypto availability. Since we don't need anything cryptographically secure, just reasonably random, we've inlined the function from nanoid/no-secure and dropped the nanoid dependency.
Documentation
We've added TypeScript usage guides for createAsyncThunk and createEntityAdapter to the alpha docs:
Alpha docs: createAsyncThunk and createEntityAdapter TypeScript usage guide
Changelog
- Use Immer 6 alpha (@markerikson - #396)
v1.3.0-alpha.9
This release reduces bundle sizes by forking and inlining the redux-immutable-state-invariant and redux-devtools-extension dependencies, and modifies the types for createEntityAdapter.
Changes
Dependency Updates and Bundle Size
Since its creation, RTK has depended on leoasis/redux-immutable-state-invariant to throw errors if accidental mutations are detected, and the zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension NPM package to handle setup and configuration of the Redux DevTools Extension as the store is created.
Unfortunately, neither of these dependencies is currently published as ES Modules, and we recently found out that the immutable middleware was actually being included in production bundles despite our attempts to ensure it is excluded.
Given that the repo for the immutable middleware has had no activity in the last 3 years, we've opted to fork the package and include the code directly inside Redux Toolkit. We've also inlined the tiny-invariant and json-stringify-safe packages that the immutable middleware depended on.
The DevTools setup package, while tiny, suffers from the same issue, and so we've forked it as well.
Based on tests locally, these changes should reduce your production bundle sizes by roughly 2.5K minified.
As a future note, Immer is currently being reworked to enable better shakeability, and once that is released, we plan on updating RTK to use the new Immer version as well. This is unlikely to make it into RTK 1.3.0, but we'll put out another update once we've been able to confirm that the changes work for us.
createEntityAdapter Types
We made a few more tweaks to the type definitions for createEntityAdapter. Shouldn't be anything breaking, but clarifying the possible overloads for the generated methods.
Changelog
- Immutable middleware cleanup (@markerikson - #385)
- Feature/immutable invariant (@msutkowski - #381)
- Fork redux-devtools-extension (@markerikson - #384)
- remove
anywhere applicable (@phryneas - #377)