Datafox

Datafox is a small decorator for fetching your API data, asynchronously binding the data to your (P)React component or Javascript class.

Install

$ npm install --save datafox

Features

• Fetching data asynchronously
• Binding api data to the this.props
  • Triggering componentDidUpdate()
• Binding data to class prototype (this)
  • Triggering didReceiveData()
• Using unfetch as polyfill, for browser support

Size

Version	Size
Component	731B
Vanilla	260B

Usage

(P)React

import data from 'datafox';

const user = '/api/users/1';

@data({user})
class User extends Component {
...

The above code makes the result from the user URL available in the User component. this.props.user will result in an object fetched from the API.

Datafox makes sure the prop is initially set, so no undefined errors are returned if you add this.props.user.name in your render function.

Vanilla classes

Using datafox for vanilla classes is also possible.

import data from 'datafox/vanilla';

const user = '/api/users/1';

@data({user})
class SomeClass {
  didReceiveData() { console.log(this.user) }
}

const someVar = new SomeClass();

someVar.user now contains the data coming from the api.

Demo

An updated code demo can be found here

License

MIT