I am trying to write a thing that lets the user move through posts. So you look at a particular post, and then you can go to the previous or next post. I am trying to do this with react router. So say the user looks at posts/3, then by clicking NEXT he or she will be redirected to posts/4 and then see post no. 4.
However, it does not work yet. Clicking the buttons works fine, and it also does change the URL in the browser. However, I do not know how I can then fetch a new post (and populate my currentPost reducer anew), whenever the route changes.
What I have so far is this:
import React from 'react'
import {connect} from 'react-redux'
import {fetchPost} from '../actions/currentPost.js'
class PostView extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.setNextPost = this.setNextPost.bind(this);
this.setPreviousPost = this.setPreviousPost.bind(this);
}
componentDidMount() {
const {id} = this.props.match.params;
this.props.fetchPost(id);
console.log("HELLO");
}
setPreviousPost() {
var {id} = this.props.match.params;
id--;
this.props.history.push('/Posts/1');
}
setNextPost() {
var {id} = this.props.match.params;
id++;
this.props.history.push('/Posts/'+id);
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<h1>Here is a Post</h1>
<button onClick={this.setPreviousPost}>Previous</button>
<button onClick={this.setNextPost}>Next</button>
</div>
);
}
}
function mapStateToProps (state) {
return {
currentPost: state.currentPost
};
}
export default connect(mapStateToProps, {fetchPost})(PostView);