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📞 Nuxt module to merge and transform multiple API + GraphQL requests into a single one, during build-time, like a payload extractor
https://github.com/luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file

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📞 Nuxt module to merge and transform multiple API + GraphQL requests into a single one, during build-time, like a payload extractor

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# 🎉 Nuxt APIs to file

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> Nuxt module to merge and transform multiple API + GraphQL requests into a single one, during build-time, like a `payload extractor`.

## 💘 Motivation

If you have (like me), too much `dispatch` in you [nuxtServerInit](https://nuxtjs.org/guide/vuex-store/#the-nuxtserverinit-action) action, maybe you prefer to merge all of this requests into a single JSON file to **speed up**, **blazing fast** your *nuxt-website*!
This file is generated *during the build-process* and it's called only *once*.
In this way, your are also saving and protecting your data because you aren't exposing the `.json` file in the `static/` dir (you can change this behavior passing a different configuration to the module).

Usually, when you **call one or more API** 📞, you're slowing down your website because every single request need to *resolve the response* (with different [TTFB](https://web.dev/time-to-first-byte/)).

> Having 3/4 requests in the `nuxtServerInit` or in the `asyncData` can increase **up to a second** the TTFB of your website (causing **worse performance audits**).

With this module you (and your users) no longer have to wait for this anymore, because everything is resolved during the build-process.

> You can use this module for every *static*, *shared* or *pre-loaded* data.

[Inspired by this comment](https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/issues/123#issuecomment-272246782).

___

## Setup

1. Add `@luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file` dependency to your project;
2. Add `@luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file` to the `buildModules` section of your `nuxt.config.js`;
3. Add the folder `apis-to-json/` to your `.gitignore` file.

```bash

yarn add @luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file # or npm install --save @luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file

```

## Configuration

**_N.B. : Shallow merge, not deep merge._**

```js

// nuxt.config.js
export default {

// Module installation
modules: [ '@luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file' ], // nuxt < v2.9
buildModules: [ '@luxdamore/nuxt-apis-to-file' ], // nuxt >= v2.9

// Module config
apisToFile: {
file: {
// The name of the file
name: 'data',
// The extension of the file
ext: 'json',
// The main folder where to save the generated file, you should add this path to your `.gitignore` file
path: 'apis-to-file',
// The `file.path` is always starting from the `srcDir`, but you can force it to the `static/` dir changing this
startFromStaticDir: false,
// Options passed directly to the `outputJson` method of the `fs-extra` library
options: {},
},
// Hide console messages
hideErrorsInConsole: false,
hideGenericMessagesInConsole: false, // default = `! nuxtConfig.dev`
// A sub-folder of `file.path` in which to place the file
dir: null,
// `@nuxtjs/axios` config is automatically injected, but you can override it here
axios: {},
// Your APIs to extract
requests: [
// Every request is passed to an `axios.create` instance
{
skip: false, // skip a request
endpoint: 'https://awesome-api.com/give-me-my-blazing-fast-data', // default = `axios.url`
method: 'get', // default = `axios.method || 'get'`
// The params of the request, you can pass a graph-ql query too, check it in the example folder
body: {},
// Use this to map the response in a custom `key`
field: 'categories', // default = `the actual index in this array of requests`
// Usually, your data is always nested in one or more objects
pathToData: 'data.categories.listCategories.items', // Check `dot-object` to know more
// In case of no-response, what value do you prefer for your empty data?
emptyValue: [],
// Like headers, authentication or everything is required by this request
config: {},
// New, available with version >= 1.2
id: -1, // useful for debugging purpose, default = `the actual index in this array of requests + 1`
// For RECURSIVE api request with lists or nested data, N.B. : RECURSIVE, keep attention
pagination: {
pathBodyToPaginationParamValue: 'variables.nextToken', // [REQUIRED], witch params should update to match the next page? It depends on how you manage the pagination from the BE
pathResponseToTheNextPaginationValue: 'data.categories.listCategories.nextToken', // useful with Graphql, default = null
step: 1, // It always start with the `pathBodyToPaginationParamValue` param if specified, so this is used to increase this numeric value
maxIterations: 15, // Max iterations
lastPaginationValue: null // useful with Graphql, stop the next Iteration if 'pathResponseToTheNextPaginationValue' or 'pathBodyToPaginationParamValue' match this value
},
},
],
},

};

```

```bash

# In this example the *response* is:
`response: {
data: {
categories: {
listCategories: [ DATA ],
},
},
}`,

# but the extracted file is only containing the chosen *pathToData* in the *field* key:
`{ categories: [ DATA ] }`

```

### Usage

```js

// store/index.js
export const actions = {
async nuxtServerInit(
{ dispatch },
) {

// usual old-slowly-way
await dispatch(
'items/getItemsCategories', // TTFB + ~200ms 😨
);
await dispatch(
'news/getNewsCategories', // TTFB + ~250ms 😱
);

// with the-fastest-new-way of apis-to-json
await dispatch(
'build-data/getDataFromFile', // TTFB .. Guess 🤭
);

},
};

// Create a module to load the generated file
// store/build-data.js
const getFile = () => import(
'~/apis-to-file/data.json'
).then(
m => m.default || m
);

export const actions = {
async getDataFromFile(
{ commit }
) {

let itemsCategories = []
, newsCategories = []
;

try {

const { categories, otherCategories } = await getFile();

if( categories )
itemsCategories = categories;

if( otherCategories )
newsCategories = otherCategories;

} catch( e ) {

console.error(
{
e,
}
);

}

commit(
'items/SET_ITEMS_CATEGORIES',
itemsCategories,
{
root: true,
}
);

commit(
'news/SET_NEWS_CATEGORIES',
newsCategories,
{
root: true,
}
);

}
};

```

___

### Related things you should know

- Nuxt [srcDir](https://nuxtjs.org/api/configuration-srcdir/);
- Nuxt [staticDir](https://nuxtjs.org/api/configuration-dir/);
- Nuxt [buildModules](https://nuxtjs.org/guide/modules/#build-only-modules);
- [fs-extra.outputJson](https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra/blob/master/docs/outputJson.md);
- `pathTo` data handled with [dot-notation](https://github.com/rhalff/dot-object);
- [Axios.create](https://github.com/axios/axios#creating-an-instance);
- [@nuxtjs/axios](https://axios.nuxtjs.org/).

## Development

1. Clone this repository;
2. Install dependencies using `yarn install` or `npm install`;
3. Start development server using `npm run dev`.

## 🐞 Issues

Please make sure to read the [Issue Reporting Checklist](/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md) before opening an issue. Issues not conforming to the guidelines may be closed immediately.

## 👥 Contribution

Please make sure to read the [Contributing Guide](/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md) before making a pull request.

## 📖 Changelog

Details changes for each release are documented in the [**release notes**](./CHANGELOG.md).

### 📃 License

[MIT License](./LICENSE) // Copyright (©) 2019-present [Luca Iaconelli](https://lucaiaconelli.it)

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