Async Route Manager

🚨 This repo is a proof of concept and is not ready for production.

The idea behind this component is to facilitate the data fetch and preloading for the react-router Route components in the easiest way.

The problem with React Router is that it does not know if the child component has the data needed to be rendered. In most cases the data comes from an API, and is not available when you execute the componentWillMount method of the component.

In the ideal scenario, a preloader should be appear while the data is being obtained, and once the data is available, the component can be rendered. Wait 🤔, in the ideal scenario, the first preloader must be different from the preloader for the sections.

Maybe an illustrated example can be more explicit...

• API resources for the example by Reqres. Thanks!

Integration

NOTE: More details soon.

Configure the routes

const dashboardConfig = {
  URL: '/posts',
  method: 'GET',
  body: null,
  data: null,
  hasdata: false,
  datacaching: true
}

const detailConfig = {
  URL: `/posts/:id`,
  method: 'GET',
  body: null,
  data: null,
  hasdata: false,
  datacaching: false
}

<Route path='/' component={ App }>
 <IndexRoute component={ Home } />
 <Route path="dashboard" component={ Dashboard } config={ dashboardConfig } />
 <Route path="dashboard/:id" component={ Detail } config={ detailConfig } />
</Route>

Configure the application component

'use strict'

import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react'
import { Link } from 'react-router'
import AsyncRouteManager from './AsyncRouteManager'

class App extends Component {

  static propTypes = {
    children: PropTypes.object.isRequired
  }

  constructor (...args) {
    super(...args)
  }

  render() {

    return (
      <div>
        <ul>
          <li><Link to='/'>Home</Link></li>
          <li><Link to='/dashboard'>Dashboard</Link></li>
        </ul>
        <AsyncRouteManager initialPreloader={ MasterPreloader }
                           transitionPreloader={ TransitionPreloader }
                           transition={ true }
                           transitionTiemOut={ 600 }
                           apiBaseURL="https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com" >
          { this.props.children }
        </AsyncRouteManager>
      </div>
    )
  }


  initialPreloader () {
    return (
      <div className="initial-loader">
        <h1>Preloading...</h1>
      </div>
    )
  }


  transitionPreloader () {
    return(
      <div className="transition-loader">
        <div className="transition-loader__line"></div>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export default App

Configure CSS transitions

.transition-enter {
  opacity: 0.01;
  -webkit-transition: opacity 600ms ease;  // same time as transitionTiemOut component prop
  transition: opacity 600ms ease;  // same time as transitionTiemOut component prop
}

.transition-enter.transition-enter-active {
  opacity: 1;
}


.transition-out {
  opacity: 1;
  -webkit-transition: opacity 600ms ease;  // same time as transitionTiemOut component prop
  transition: opacity 600ms ease;  // same time as transitionTiemOut component prop
}

.transition-out.transition-out-active {
  opacity: 0.01;
}