Subscribe to single property change in store in Redux

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In Redux I can easily subscribe to store changes with

store.subscribe(() => my handler goes here)

But what if my store is full of different objects and in a particular place in my app I want to subscribe to changes made only in a specific object in the store?

4 Answers

Created a hack to help understand the subscribers can be differentiated based on store data, with multiple store capability.

//import { createStore } from 'redux';
let createStore = require('redux').createStore;
let combineReducers = require('redux').combineReducers;
/**
 * This is a reducer, a pure function with (state, action) => state signature.
 * It describes how an action transforms the state into the next state.
 *
 * The shape of the state is up to you: it can be a primitive, an array, an object,
 * or even an Immutable.js data structure. The only important part is that you should
 * not mutate the state object, but return a new object if the state changes.
 *
 * In this example, we use a `switch` statement and strings, but you can use a helper that
 * follows a different convention (such as function maps) if it makes sense for your
 * project.
 */
function counter(state = 0, action) {
    switch (action.type) {
        case 'INCREMENT':
            return state + 1
        case 'DECREMENT':
            return state - 1
        default:
            return state
    }
}

function messanger(state = 'Mr, khazi', action) {
    switch(action.type) {
        case 'WELCOME':
            return 'Hello, Mr Khazi';
        case 'BYE':
            return 'Bye, Mr Khazi';
        case 'INCREMENT':
            return 'Incremented khazi';
        default:
            return state;
    }
};

function latestAction(state = null, action) {
    switch(action.type) {
        case 'WELCOME':
            return '$messanger';
        case 'BYE':
            return '$messanger';
        case 'INCREMENT':
            return '$messanger, $counter';
        case 'DECREMENT':
            return '$counter';
        default:
            return state;
    }
};

let reducers = {
    counts: counter,
    message: messanger,
    action: latestAction
};

let store = createStore(
    combineReducers(reducers, latestAction)
);
  
// Create a Redux store holding the state of your app.
// Its API is { subscribe, dispatch, getState }.
//let store = createStore(counter)

// You can use subscribe() to update the UI in response to state changes.
// Normally you'd use a view binding library (e.g. React Redux) rather than subscribe() directly.
// However it can also be handy to persist the current state in the localStorage.
store.subscribe(() => {
    if(store.getState().action.indexOf('messanger') !== -1) {
        console.log('subscribed for counter actions', store.getState());
    }
});

store.subscribe(() => {
    if (store.getState().action.indexOf('counter') !== -1) {
        console.log('subscribed for messanger actions', store.getState());
    }
});

// The only way to mutate the internal state is to dispatch an action.
// The actions can be serialized, logged or stored and later replayed.
console.log('----------------Action with both subscriber-------------');
store.dispatch({ type: 'INCREMENT' });
console.log('---------------Action with counter subscriber-----------');
store.dispatch({ type: 'DECREMENT' });
console.log('---------------Action with messenger subscriber---------');
store.dispatch({ type: 'WELCOME' });

/*
    every reducer will execute on each action.

*/
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