redux-form is Destroying my state once the component is unmounted, what gives?

Question

I am not passing in any special config settings nor am I setting/or calling Destroy... but my state is being cleaned... anyway to prevent this? I need the state to stick around as I need that data thruout my application.

prev state: I see it in there... via redux-logger
action: redux-form/Destroy
next state: it's gone.

Answer 1

The form's state subtree is destroyed when the form is unmounted, by design. This is the default and expected behaviour.

From v6.2.1 onwards there is a form config property destroyOnUnmount, which explicitly enables/disables the state-clearing behaviour on a specific form (docs here)

import { reduxForm } from 'redux-form';

reduxForm({
  form: 'example',
  destroyOnUnmount: false
})(...)

This is useful when you have a form whose state you wish to preserve if the user abandons it halfway though, navigates away, and then returns later.