react-starter-state-reducer

Summary

This is a starter package for bootstrapping a react project.

It is based on create-react-app and also includes:

• react-testing-library
• lodash

For state managament, it has the barebones of a state management approach based on a the State Reducer pattern:

1. App is loaded with two props:

   • initialState - Application level state object.
   • stateReducer - A reducer function that is provided the current state and an updater object (akin to a redux action) and that based on this can update the state object.

2. App is equipped with a setInternalState function to be called in place of setState and which takes an updater object or function and a callback. setInternalState calls setState, but before it does so it generates a set of changes by passing the updater through this.props.stateReducer.

3. The initialState and stateReducer are defined in a file state.js. Updater functions can be placed in a file updater.js.

4. Note that the stateReducer must always return the original state by default when no change is in order.