How to get an item from redux store with redux saga

Question

So I have fetched the data from an API and stored it into my Redux store. It's an array of objects, containing 100ish objects. On the front end I am displaying 4 keys from every object.

What I am trying to do now is on the front end, search by a key (name or year) and render the results. Ideally, it would be something like ILIKE in PSQL, but even having the result only when e.target.value === obj.super.nested.key || obj.super.nested.key_two would be amazing.

I have tried using the select() from redux-saga/effects to no avail.

What I tried originally is on onChange of the input field, to dispatch an action to a watcher with the e.target.value as a parameter, which would call a function using that the value as a parameter for select().

The code with PSQL instead of redux saga would be :

    const [val, setVal] = useState("");
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    useEffect(() => {
        if (val.length >= 3) {
            axios.get(`/searchCards/${val}.json`).then(results => {});
        } else if (val.length <= 3) {
            setCard("");
        }
    }, [val]);
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 function handleChange(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    setVal(e.target.value);
  }

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   <form noValidate onSubmit={e => this.submit(e)}>
            <input
              noValidate
              name="searchValue"
              placeholder="name"
              onChange={e => handleChange(e)}
            />
            <br />
            <br />
            <input onChange={e => handleChange(e)} type="date" />
          </form>

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node.js

app.get("/searchCards/:str.json", (req, res) => {
    db.findCard(req.params.str)
        .then(results => {
            let result = results.rows[0].name;
            res.json({ result });
        })
        .catch(err => {
            console.log("error in searching for cards by name: ", err.message);
            res.json(null);
        });
});

exports.findCard = function findCard(str) {
    return db.query(`SELECT * FROM cards WHERE name ILIKE $1 LIMIT 1`, [
        str + "%"
    ]);
};

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How could I achieve the same with redux-saga, searching the store by value, and returning the whole object which contains that value?

Answer 1

I have found my workaround if anyone wants to know. The documentation on redux-saga is not very rich, so I did it the only way I knew how.

Basically, when the component mounts, I request the data from the api and store in the redux store. As soon as it's in the store, I render it on the FE.

Since on the change of an input field I want to display only some parts of the previously displayed data, I made a ternary which says if the input field value exists/changes, map through the store and return where input value.toLowerCase().startsWithstartsWith(value_in_the_store), else, return all the data.

It works like a charm.

If anyone has another idea, I'd love to hear.