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# Precompose-props

> Prop mapping made easy.



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## Table of Contents



-   [Install](#install)

-   [Motivation](#install)

-   [Usage](#usage)

-   [API](#api)

-   [License](#license)



## Install

This package is distributed via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm).



```shell

$ npm install --save precompose-props

# or

$ yarn add precompose-props

```



Then import according to your modules model and bundler, such as [Rollup](https://rollupjs.org/guide/en) and [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/)



```js

// ES6 Modules

// For all possible functions to import, look at "export" in src/index.js

import { contramap, withTheme } from 'precompose-props';



/// CommonJS modules

var precomposeProps = require('precompose-props');

```



A [UMD](https://github.com/umdjs/umd) version is also available on [unpkg](https://unpkg.com/):

```html



```



## Motivation



When working with React, I often want to make a component that "wraps" the props of another component, mapping from one set to another.

This is especially true when composing styles; I want to have a higher-level "theme" prop, that collects a set of lower-level "style" props.

Doing this manually has some annoying boilerplate, and leads to more noise than I'd like.



Ideally, I would be able to do something like this:



```jsx

const Th = ({fontWeight, color, children}) => {children};



const Cell = withTheme({bold: {fontWeight: '7', color: 'black'}})(Th);

```



### Ideas



In his talk ["Oh Composable World!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWR3dKnFIo), Brian Lonsdorf (aka Dr. Boolean) goes over how to use `contramap` to compose props.

A contramap in this context allows us to use a function pre-process a set of props, before passing the result on to a component. This is exactly what we want!

(Also, that sounds like `mapStateToProps()` from `react-redux`).



Let's define contramap:



```js

const contramap = mapFn => Component => props => Component(mapFn(props));

```



In his talk, he defines a `Comp = x => {...}` function, because there is a larger point about composition and concatenation for React (contravariance and monoids).

I am not doing that, because calling .fold() would look out of place in our codebase. 

Would be simple to add and fun to try though :)



## Usage

```jsx

import React from "react";

import { render } from "react-dom";

import {

  withTheme,

  named,

  toggle,

  contramap,

  concatAndMergeProps

} from "precompose-props";



// The lower component

const P = ({ measure, lineHeight, fontSize, fontWeight, children }) => (

  


    {children}

  


);



// Higher component

const Text = withTheme({

  bold: toggle({ fontWeight: "700" }),

  kind: named(

    { copy: { lineHeight: "1.5", measure: "34em" } },

    { heading: { lineHeight: "1.25" } }

  )

})(P);



// Equivalent forms

// Using concatAndMergeProps directly with contramap

const TextAlt = contramap(

  concatAndMergeProps({

    bold: toggle({ fontWeight: "700" }),

    kind: named(

      { copy: { lineHeight: "1.5", measure: "34em" } },

      { heading: { lineHeight: "1.25" } }

    )

  })

)(P);



// Using contramap with a custom function

/*

mapFakeToProps(({bold, kind, ...rest}) => "Fill this in");

const TextManual = contramap(mapFakeToProps)(P);

*/



const App = () => (

  


    

      I am a Heading

    

    

      This is a text oh this is a text, and would you guess, this is copy text

      with max widths and stuff.

    

    

      This is a text oh this is a text, and would you guess, this is copy text

      with max widths and stuff.

    

  


);



render(, document.getElementById("root"));

```



### Any abstraction you like



Another piece of wisdom by Dr. Boolean (I'm a fan, can't you tell?) is on API design (paraphrasing):



-   A set of primitives

-   A way to compose them

-   A set of precomposed things



Armed with that thought, here are the functions provided and their use cases, lower- to higher- level.



**Low-level**



-   `contramap`

      apply a mapping function from one set of props to another, pass to component



-   `concatProps`

      concatenate props according to a specification



-   `concatAndMergeProps`

      concatenate props according to a specification, merges



**Specification Utilities**



A specification is of the form

```ts

{[K in higherProp]: mapFn}



mapFn: higherPropValue => Partial`.

```



-   `toggle(obj)(value)`

      return obj if value is true



-   `named(obj)(value)`

      return the entry at obj[value]



**Higher-level**



-   `withTheme`

      maps props with specification, merge other props



-   `mapTheme`

      maps props with specification, do not merge other props



If you see a pattern there, it's because the latter are simply compositions of the former!

Functions are curried by default. I have not used Ramda's `curry`; this is open to change.



### Examples

[Edit the example above on CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io/s/0107ywo83l)



### API



#### Table of Contents



## TODO



-   Types

-   Example folder



## Inspiration

- Brian Lonsdorf (drboolean) for his talks on functional JS. Even when the language is not the best for it, I

will occasionally run into cases where I think about concatenation or the order of operations.

- Jason Miller (developit) for his package build setups, and `microbundle`. They were a great starting

point to figure out how to publish this damn thing.