Up until now we relied on implicit loading of middlewares and reducers, through
having imports in each feature's index.js.
This leads to many complex import cycles which result in (sometimes) hard to fix
bugs in addition to (often) breaking mobile because a web-only feature gets
imported on mobile too, thanks to the implicit loading.
This PR changes that to make the process explicit. Both middlewares and reducers
are imported in a single place, the app entrypoint. They have been divided into
3 categories: any, web and native, which represent each of the platforms
respectively.
Ideally no feature should have an index.js exporting actions, action types and
components, but that's a larger ordeal, so this is just the first step in
getting there. In order to both set example and avoid large cycles the app
feature has been refactored to not have an idex.js itself.
Using anything non-serializable for action types is discouraged:
https://redux.js.org/faq/actions#actions
In fact, this is the Flow definition for dispatching actions:
declare export type DispatchAPI<A> = (action: A) => A;
declare export type Dispatch<A: { type: $Subtype<string> }> = DispatchAPI<A>;
Note how the `type` field is defined as a subtype of string, which Symbol isn’t.
componentWillMount is a deprecated lifecycle method;
componentDidMount should be used to kick off things
like ajax. In the case of the _App hierarchy, a promise
chain is used to perform initialization, and it is
first started in the constructor by initializing
storage. However, by the time storage is initialized,
resolving the first promise, _App has already mounted.
So, move it all to the componentDidMount lifecycle.
It's a separate view (on the native side) and app (on the JavaScript side) so
applications can use it independently.
Co-authored-by: Shuai Li <sli@atlassian.com>
Co-authored-by: Pawel Domas <pawel.domas@jitsi.org>
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Bettenbuk Zoltan
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Leonard Kim
Lyubo Marinov