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lecham
lecham

Reputation: 2464

Add value to React context from child components

I am trying to use React context as a state manager in my React Native app.

Here's the context:

import React, { createContext, useState, useEffect } from "react";
import axios from "axios";
export const GlobalContext = createContext();

export const Provider = ({ children }) => {
  const [tracksList, setTracksList] = useState([
    {
      track_list: []
    }
  ]);

  useEffect(() => {
    axios
      .get(
        `https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://api.musixmatch.com/ws/1.1/chart.tracks.get?page=1&page_size=10&country=us&f_has_lyrics=1&apikey=${
          process.env.REACT_APP_MM_KEY
        }`
      )
      .then(res => {
        setTracksList([
          {
            track_list: res.data.message.body.track_list
          }
        ]);
      })
      .catch(err => console.log(err));
  }, []);

  return (
    <GlobalContext.Provider value={[tracksList, setTracksList]}>
      {children}
    </GlobalContext.Provider>
  );
};

export const Consumer = GlobalContext.Consumer;

Child component. Here I'd like to make an API call to get users and set this users field to global context. I can get context value from consumer, but how to set the new one?

import React, { useContext } from "react";

import { GlobalContext } from "../../context/context";

const Demo = () => {
  const contextValue = useContext(GlobalContext);

  console.log(contextValue, "Context outside from JSX");
  return <div>Content</div>;
};

export default Demo;

So, is it possible to add new value to React context from every child component, like in Redux? Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2735

Answers (1)

Georgiy T.
Georgiy T.

Reputation: 1201

You could use the useReducer effect to achieve Redux reducers:

// Create context
export const ApiContext = React.createContext();

// Create some reducer function
const reducer = (state, action) => {
  if (action.type === 'some action name') {
    return {
      ...state,
      report: action.payload,
    };
  }

  return state;
};

// Overwrite a context provider
const Provider = ({ children }) => {
  const [state, dispatch] = React.useReducer(reducer, {});

  return (
    <ApiContext.Provider
      value={{
        ...state,
        dispatch,
      }}
    >
      {children}
    </ApiContext.Provider>
  );
};

Then you could use in components as follows:

const Component = () => {
  const { dispatch, report } = React.useContext(ApiContext);

  React.useEffect(() => {
    const asyncPost = async () => {
      const response = await fetch('some endpoint', {
        method: 'POST',
      });

      const payload = await response.json();

      // This will call a reducer action and update a state
      dispatch({
        type: 'some action name',
        payload,
      });
    }
  }, []);

  ...
};

So when Component is mounted, the state would be an empty object. Then when you update the state using the some action name action, the state becomes { report: some data from fetch }.

Upvotes: 3

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