Loading initial state and hydrating.

[jmatsushita]

Hi there,

What's the pattern in redux-elm to hydrate/rehydrate which if I understand correctly is the redux terminology for providing initial state from the server or a store (in my case Pouch).

I'm not sure if I can do this in the boilerplate or if it should go in the Updaters and if so how?

Cheers,

Jun

[jmatsushita]

To clarify I want to check if pouch has local data, if not check if a remote couch has data and set my initial state that way.

I'm using https://github.com/pgte/pouch-redux-middleware but I'm wondering if https://github.com/medihack/redux-pouchdb-plus would be a better fit, or maybe I should use something like https://github.com/KELiON/redux-async-initial-state ?

[tomkis]

Hello,

the idea is pretty simple, you should be able to provide initial state in boilerplate.js file located in the skeleton repo.

So instead of

const store = storeFactory(updater);

You'd have something like:

const store = storeFactory(updater, window.reduxState);

Where window.reduxState would just be serialized JSON provided in initial rendering of the HTML page.

You can look into our official boilerplate we are doing it exactly this way.

I do not think that redux-async-initial-state would help you anyhow since you want to initially load the state synchronously.

Was my explanation any helpful?