Handling async requests as a side effect?

[nodediggity]

Just looking at the docs, I wondered did you have any opinion on the best way to handle async calls, for example triggering a network request as a side effect of an action?

I'm thinking for example if I dispatch an action such as FetchBookFromAPI(id: "some-book-id") I would like that action to trigger a network request, by passing id as an argument to my networking client. On success of that request I can dispatch another action with the response as a payload and populate my store.

Looking at the ActionLogger I see how I can intercept requests, but I am struggling to see how, rather than creating a middleware for each async action, how I can trigger the request?

public func ActionLogger<S>() -> Middleware<S> {
    return { dispatch, getState in
        return { next in
            return { action in
                print("Action: ", action)
                return next(action)
            }
        }
    }
}

Any thought on that would be appreciated so much :)

[svdo]

I recommend looking at https://github.com/mikecole20/ReSwiftThunk, I think that might be the thing you're looking for.