Show HN: Nion, declarative API data management library built on Redux

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I’m confused about the structure that is returned in the example. The `currentUser` has data, actions, and response properties. How would you know the shape of the values? Does nion have a concept of serializing the responses? One thing I like about all of the boilerplate with redux is that it allows you to manage the shape of all data within its life cycles. I’m just missing how I could do that with this.

Hey Duncan! I’m one of the nion maintainers. These are great questions! The answer to this specific one is that currentUser follows the JSONAPI spec. Which means we don’t really need to know the shape of the response, because they’re all the same! We then normalize the data in nion so you can use it as you expect. JSONAPI is not required for nion, you can use whatever you like including REST. We have several adapters that come built in to nion, including REST and JSONAPI.

Nice. I'll have to poke through Nion's source a bit to see how it works.

FWIW, here's my lists of other existing similar libraries:

https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...

I've been waiting for something like Apollo for Rest APIs. Looks interesting!

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