Redux Saga Persistence example

This example shows how a persistence mechanism can be implemented by using Redux Sagas.

Check the code for the persistence saga here. I've written a blog post detailing the process on how to implement it.

Watch the example at work here: http://www.joaoportela.com/redux-saga-persistence

Update Notes

At the time the blog post was created, the redux-saga project was running at version 0.9.5. Over the past year the library changed quite a bit, with some breaking changes, so I updated the example code to work with the most recent version of the library (15.0.3 at the moment). The blog post wasn't updated though, if you want to check the exact version of the example that was working on 0.9.5 check https://github.com/jportela/redux-saga-persistence/tree/0.9.5

The following changes were done:

• Changed from fork to spawn, because we want to keep the process detached
• Added the sagaMiddleware.run(sagas); to the store
• Simplified the Lock system by removing isLocked since the <Task>.isRunning() method provides similar functionality
• Removed the try/catch block in debounceSave because
• Updated webpack from v1 to v2
• Added yarn as the dependency manager

All changes can be seen in this PR: jportela#2

Scope

This persistence mechanism uses the local storage as an example, but it's intended to be used with a server (for true asynchronous persistence). It assumes that you’ll save the whole state to the server (although you can easily select just a subset of it). The save operation follows these requirements:

• There must be a whitelist of actions (only actions on the whitelist will trigger a save)
• Some actions (such as dragging an image) should be debounced, in order to only trigger a save operation to the server after an amount of time
• Other actions (such as creating an image) should save immediately
• There should be an “unsaved changes” indicator on the UI, that is displayed when a change is first recorded and hidden when a successful save response is received from the server

Running the example

This example was tested using Node 4 for the build/dev process.

1. Clone this repository
2. Run yarn install or npm install
3. Run npm start

The example should be available at http://localhost:8080

Preparing this example for production

1. Run npm run build which will generate the required /static files