I am trying to populate my redux store state with a list of genres from an API, I can get the action to dispatch to the reducer, but the reducer does not seem to update the state because my console.log in src/components/MovieForm.tsx returns the default state of "null" instead of the array of genres and I do not know why, I am trying to see if the state is updated in src/components/MovieForm.tsx in the setInterval where I am logging the state, maybe the problem is how I am accessing the state? Here are the files:
src/actions/movieActions.ts:
import { ActionCreator, Dispatch } from 'redux';
import { ThunkAction } from 'redux-thunk';
import { IMovieState } from '../reducers/movieReducer';
import axios from 'axios';
export enum MovieActionTypes {
ANY = 'ANY',
GENRE = 'GENRE',
}
export interface IMovieGenreAction {
type: MovieActionTypes.GENRE;
genres: any;
}
export type MovieActions = IMovieGenreAction;
/*<Promise<Return Type>, State Interface, Type of Param, Type of Action> */
export const movieAction: ActionCreator<ThunkAction<Promise<any>, IMovieState, void, IMovieGenreAction>> = () => {
return async (dispatch: Dispatch) => {
try {
console.log('movieActions called')
let res = await axios.get(`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/genre/movie/list?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIE_API_KEY}&language=en-US`)
console.log(res.data.genres)
dispatch({
genres: res.data.genres,
type: MovieActionTypes.GENRE
})
} catch (err) {
console.log(err);
}
}
};
src/reducers/movieReducer.ts:
import { Reducer } from 'redux';
import { MovieActionTypes, MovieActions } from '../actions/movieActions';
export interface IMovieState {
//property: any;
genres: any;
}
const initialMovieState: IMovieState = {
//property: null,
genres: null,
};
export const movieReducer: Reducer<IMovieState, MovieActions> = (
state = initialMovieState,
action
) => {
switch (action.type) {
case MovieActionTypes.GENRE: {
console.log('MovieActionTypes.GENRE called')
return {
genres: action.genres,
};
}
default:
console.log('Default action called')
return state;
}
};
src/store/store.ts:
import { applyMiddleware, combineReducers, createStore, Store } from 'redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import { IMovieState, movieReducer } from '../reducers/movieReducer';
// Create an interface for the application state
export interface IAppState {
movieState: IMovieState
}
// Create the root reducer
const rootReducer = combineReducers<IAppState>({
movieState: movieReducer
});
// Create a configure store function of type `IAppState`
export default function configureStore(): Store<IAppState, any> {
const store = createStore(rootReducer, undefined, applyMiddleware(thunk));
return store;
}
src/components/MovieForm.tsx (the file that is supposed to dispatch the action):
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import Paper from '@material-ui/core/Paper';
import Box from '@material-ui/core/Box';
import Select from '@material-ui/core/Select';
import MenuItem from '@material-ui/core/MenuItem';
import { spacing } from '@material-ui/system';
import Card from '@material-ui/core/Card';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import Typography from '@material-ui/core/Typography';
import { CardHeader, TextField, CircularProgress } from '@material-ui/core';
import { useDispatch, useSelector } from 'react-redux';
import { movieAction } from '../actions/movieActions';
import { IAppState } from '../store/store';
import axios from 'axios';
const MovieForm = () => {
const dispatch = useDispatch()
const getGenres = () => {
console.log('actions dispatched')
dispatch(movieAction())
}
const genres = useSelector((state: IAppState) => state.movieState.genres);
//const [genreChoice, setGenreChoice] = useState('')
return (
<>
<h1>Movie Suggester</h1>
<Paper elevation={3}>
<Box p={10}>
<Card>
<div>Hello World. </div>
<Select onChange={() => console.log(genres)}>
<MenuItem>
hello
</MenuItem>
<br />
<br />
</Select>
<Button onClick={() => {
getGenres()
setTimeout(function(){
console.log(genres)
}, 5000)
}}>genres list</Button>
<Button onClick={() => console.log(axios.get(`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIE_API_KEY}&language=en-US&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&with_genres=35&page=1`))}>Click me</Button>
</Card>
</Box>
</Paper>
</>
)
}
export default MovieForm
and here is the src/index.tsx in case the problem is here and I'm unaware:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import { BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom';
import './index.css';
import CssBaseline from '@material-ui/core/CssBaseline';
import { ThemeProvider } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import theme from './theme';
import App from './App';
import configureStore from './store/store';
const store = configureStore();
ReactDOM.render(
<React.StrictMode>
<Provider store={store}>
<ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
{/* CssBaseline kickstart an elegant, consistent, and simple baseline to build upon. */}
<CssBaseline />
<Router>
<App />
</Router>
</ThemeProvider>
</Provider>
</React.StrictMode>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
Thanks for taking a look at this and and attempting to help me see what I am unable to!