How to set the initial state?

Hi Dan,

In the current version, the state is null/undefined until the state is set. What’s the best way to set an initial state for a store?

Right now I’m doing this:

  constructor() {
    this.setState({}, 'INITIALIZE_STATE');
  }

However, I’m not sure this is semantically correct or just a workaround. Feels wrong somehow, because there was no action triggered - it’s just the state being initialized (not an action imho).

Maybe a setInitialState or initializeState method is necessary.

  constructor() {
    this.setInitialState({});
  }

Or maybe in the super constructor since initializing state would be done only once?

  constructor() {
    this.super({});
  }

However, that is already used for the config/settings…

Any thoughts on this?

[DanWahlin]

Sound great. I’m super open to feature ideas (many have come from other people using it) so if you do think of something and it still keeps things simple let me know. Appreciate it!

[DanWahlin]

You’ll want to use the ObservableStore.initalizeState() static function:

https://github.com/DanWahlin/Observable-Store/blob/master/README.md#store-api