How do I access store state in React Redux?

Question

I am just making a simple app to learn async with redux. I have gotten everything working, now I just want to display the actual state onto the web-page. Now, how do I actually access the store's state in the render method?

Here is my code (everything is in one page because I'm just learning):

const initialState = {
        fetching: false,
        fetched: false,
        items: [],
        error: null
    }

const reducer = (state=initialState, action) => {
    switch (action.type) {
        case "REQUEST_PENDING": {
            return {...state, fetching: true};
        }
        case "REQUEST_FULFILLED": {
            return {
                ...state,
                fetching: false,
                fetched: true,
                items: action.payload
            }
        }
        case "REQUEST_REJECTED": {
            return {...state, fetching: false, error: action.payload}   
        }
        default: 
            return state;
    }
};

const middleware = applyMiddleware(promise(), thunk, logger());
const store = createStore(reducer, middleware);

store.dispatch({
    type: "REQUEST",
    payload: fetch('http://localhost:8000/list').then((res)=>res.json())
});

store.dispatch({
    type: "REQUEST",
    payload: fetch('http://localhost:8000/list').then((res)=>res.json())
});

render(
    <Provider store={store}>
        <div>
            { this.props.items.map((item) => <p> {item.title} </p> )}
        </div>
    </Provider>,
    document.getElementById('app')
);

So, in the render method of the state I want to list out all the item.title from the store.

Thanks

Answer 1

You should create separate component, which will be listening to state changes and updating on every state change:

import store from '../reducers/store';

class Items extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      items: [],
    };

    store.subscribe(() => {
      // When state will be updated(in our case, when items will be fetched), 
      // we will update local component state and force component to rerender 
      // with new data.

      this.setState({
        items: store.getState().items;
      });
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {this.state.items.map((item) => <p> {item.title} </p> )}
      </div>
    );
  }
};

render(<Items />, document.getElementById('app'));