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Primitive and flexible state management for React

Bunja

Bunja is lightweight State Lifetime Manager.

It provides an RAII wrapper for jōtai atoms.


See also:

install

npm install bunja

Defining a Bunja

You can define a bunja using the bunja function.

When you access the defined bunja with the useBunja hook, a bunja instance is created.

If all components in the render tree that refer to the bunja disappear, the bunja instance is automatically destroyed.

If you want to trigger effects when the lifetime of a bunja starts and ends, you can use the bunja.effect field.

import { bunja } from 'bunja'
import { useBunja } from 'bunja/react'
const countBunja = bunja([], () => {
const countAtom = atom(0)
return {
countAtom,
[bunja.effect]() {
console.log('mounted')
return () => console.log('unmounted')
},
}
})
function MyComponent() {
const { countAtom } = useBunja(countBunja)
const [count, setCount] = useAtom(countAtom)
// Your component logic here
}

Defining a Bunja that relies on other Bunja

If you want to manage a state with a broad lifetime and another state with a narrower lifetime, you can create a (narrower) bunja that depends on a (broader) bunja.

For example, you can think of a bunja that holds the page state and another bunja that holds the modal state.

The page state lives longer than the modal state, and the modal state should exist from the moment the modal opens until it closes.

In such a case, you can write the following code.

const pageBunja = bunja([], () => {
const pageStateAtom = atom({})
return { pageStateAtom }
})
const childBunja = bunja([pageBunja], ({ pageStateAtom }) => {
const childStateAtom = atom((get) => ({
...get(pageStateAtom),
child: 'state',
}))
return { childStateAtom }
})
const modalBunja = bunja([pageBunja], ({ pageStateAtom }) => {
const modalStateAtom = atom((get) => ({
...get(pageStateAtom),
modal: 'state',
}))
return { modalStateAtom }
})
function Page() {
const [modalOpen, setModalOpen] = useState(false)
return (
<>
<Child />
{modalOpen && <Modal />}
</>
)
}
function Child() {
const { childStateAtom } = useBunja(childBunja)
const childState = useAtomValue(childStateAtom)
// ...
}
function Modal() {
const { modalStateAtom } = useBunja(modalBunja)
const modalState = useAtomValue(modalStateAtom)
// ...
}

Notice that pageBunja is not directly useBunja-ed.

When you useBunja either childBunja or modalBunja, since they depend on pageBunja, it has the same effect as if pageBunja were also useBunja-ed.

When the modal is unmounted, there are no longer any places using useBunja(modalBunja), so the instance of modalBunja is automatically destroyed.

Dependency injection using Scope

You can use a bunja for local state management.

When you specify a scope as a dependency of the bunja, separate bunja instances are created based on the values injected into the scope.

import { bunja, createScope } from 'bunja'
const UrlScope = createScope()
const fetchBunja = bunja([UrlScope], (url) => {
const queryAtom = atomWithQuery((get) => ({
queryKey: [url],
queryFn: async () => (await fetch(url)).json(),
}))
return { queryAtom }
})

Injecting dependencies via React context

If you bind a scope to a React context, bunjas that depend on the scope can retrieve values from the corresponding React context.

In the example below, there are two React instances (<ChildComponent />) that reference the same fetchBunja, but since each looks at a different context value, two separate bunja instances are also created.

import { createContext } from 'react'
import { bunja, createScope } from 'bunja'
import { bindScope } from 'bunja/react'
const UrlContext = createContext('https://example.com/')
const UrlScope = createScope()
bindScope(UrlScope, UrlContext)
const fetchBunja = bunja([UrlScope], (url) => {
const queryAtom = atomWithQuery((get) => ({
queryKey: [url],
queryFn: async () => (await fetch(url)).json(),
}))
return { queryAtom }
})
function ParentComponent() {
return (
<>
<UrlContext value="https://example.com/foo">
<ChildComponent />
</UrlContext>
<UrlContext value="https://example.com/bar">
<ChildComponent />
</UrlContext>
</>
)
}
function ChildComponent() {
const { queryAtom } = useBunja(fetchBunja)
const { data, isPending, isError } = useAtomValue(queryAtom)
// Your component logic here
}

You can use the createScopeFromContext function to handle both the creation of the scope and the binding to the context in one step.

import { createContext } from 'react'
import { createScopeFromContext } from 'bunja/react'
const UrlContext = createContext('https://example.com/')
const UrlScope = createScopeFromContext(UrlContext)

Injecting dependencies directly into the scope

You might want to use a bunja directly within a React component where the values to be injected into the scope are created.

In such cases, you can use the inject function to inject values into the scope without wrapping the context separately.

import { inject } from 'bunja/react'
function MyComponent() {
const { queryAtom } = useBunja(
fetchBunja,
inject([[UrlScope, 'https://example.com/']]),
)
const { data, isPending, isError } = useAtomValue(queryAtom)
// Your component logic here
}