How to get a resolved promise to my component with Redux Promise? - reactjs

Question

I'm making a request in my action - pulling from an API that needs to load in some data into my component. I have it start that request when the component will mount, but I can't seem to get Redux-Promise to work correctly because it just keeps returning:
Promise {[[PromiseStatus]]: "pending", [[PromiseValue]]: undefined}
in my dev tools when I try to console.log the value inside of my componentWillMount method.
Here's my code below:
Store & Router
import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import promiseMiddleware from 'redux-promise';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import { Router, hashHistory } from 'react-router';
import routes from './routes';
import rootReducer from './reducers';
const store = createStore(
rootReducer,
applyMiddleware(promiseMiddleware)
);
render(
<Provider store={store}>
<Router history={hashHistory} routes={routes} />
</Provider>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
Action
import axios from 'axios';
export const FETCH_REVIEWS = 'FETCH_REVIEWS';
export const REQUEST_URL = 'http://www.example.com/api';
export function fetchReviews() {
const request = axios.get(REQUEST_URL);
return {
type: FETCH_REVIEWS,
payload: request
};
};
Reviews Reducer
import { FETCH_REVIEWS } from '../actions/reviewActions';
const INITIAL_STATE = {
all: []
};
export default function reviewsReducer(state = INITIAL_STATE, action) {
switch(action.type) {
case FETCH_REVIEWS:
return {
...state,
all: action.payload.data
}
default:
return state;
}
}
Root Reducer
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import reviewsReducer from './reviewsReducer';
const rootReducer = combineReducers({
reviews: reviewsReducer
});
export default rootReducer;
Component
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { fetchReviews } from '../../actions/reviewActions';
class Home extends Component {
componentWillMount() {
console.log(this.props.fetchReviews());
}
render() {
return (
<div>List of Reviews will appear below:</div>
);
}
}
export default connect(null, { fetchReviews })(Home);
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Redux-promise returns a proper Promise object, so you may change your code a little bit to avoid immediate execution.
class Home extends Component {
componentWillMount() {
this.props.fetchReviews().then((whatever) => { console.log('resolved')})
}
// ...
}