normalizr
Install
Install from the NPM repository using yarn or npm:
Motivation
Many APIs, public or not, return JSON data that has deeply nested objects. Using data in this kind of structure is often very difficult for JavaScript applications, especially those using Flux or Redux.
Solution
Normalizr is a small, but powerful utility for taking JSON with a schema definition and returning nested entities with their IDs, gathered in dictionaries.
Documentation
Examples
Quick Start
Consider a typical blog post. The API response for a single post might look something like this:
We have two nested entity types within our article
: users
and comments
. Using various schema
, we can normalize all three entity types down:
Now, normalizedData
will be:
Dependencies
None.
Credits
Normalizr was originally created by Dan Abramov and inspired by a conversation with Jing Chen. Since v3, it was completely rewritten and maintained by Paul Armstrong. It has also received much help, enthusiasm, and contributions from community members.
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