Declarative data fetching for React 🎣

react-data-fetching provides a very intuitive way to perform any REST API call without hassle, through a single React component. It also helps you take care of timeouts, loading states, errors handling, data saving, uploading/downloading progress, etc. Fetching data while letting the user know what's going on has never been that easy!

The package is quite lightweight (~7 kB gzipped) and has been built from the ground up with universal apps in mind: you can use it wherever React is rendering - meaning it works seamlessly with React (web) & React Native!

Installation

Using Yarn:

$ yarn add react-data-fetching@next

Then, use it as you would with anything else:

// using ES6 modules import { Fetch } from 'react-data-fetching'  // using CommonJS modules var Fetch = require('react-data-fetching').Fetch

The UMD build is also available on unpkg:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-data-fetching/umd/react-data-fetching.min.js"></script>

You can find the library on window.ReactDataFetching.

Usage

The following illustrates the simplest way to use react-data-fetching:

import React, { Component } from 'react' import { Fetch } from 'react-data-fetching'  import { Loader } from './components'  export default class App extends Component {   render() {     return (       <Fetch         loader={<Loader />} // Replace this with your lovely handcrafted loader         url="https://api.github.com/users/octocat"         timeout={5000}       >         {({ data }) => (           <div>             <h1>Username</h1>             <p>{data.name}</p>           </div>         )}       </Fetch>     )   } }

The package gives access to <Fetch>, <FetchProvider> and requestToApi(). To have an in-depth explanation of how to use them, how they work and even more, head to this post: Introducing React Data Fetching 🎣.

Docs

The documentation is available here: https://react-data-fetching.now.sh.

Todo

Want to submit a PR but don't know where to start? Here is a list of features you could consider! This might change in the future as the API is far from being complete.

• Add compatibility to React 16.3.0+ lifecycles ⚛️
• Implement React 16.3.0+ new context API ⚛️
• Add an /examples folder for newcomers & contributors 📂
• Add the ability to run multiple fetches serially or in parallel ⛓
• Implement a caching system (through React's Suspense?) 📥
• What else?

About

react-data-fetching is currently developed and maintained by yours truly, @Charles_Mangwa. Feel free to get in touch if you want to contribute!