Getting started

Overview

1. Create a Tunnel.
2. Pass state to the Tunnel's Provider Component.
3. Place your state consumption points.

1. Create a tunnel.

Define the structure of data to be passed through the tunnel. The first argument of createProviderConsumer is a default value. The first argument is the default value and the second argument is how the consumer works. Mostly you will just need to copy and paste this. 'context-consumer' is a component that is included in this package.

// Filename: './data/message.tsx'

import { createProviderConsumer } from '@stencil/state-tunnel';

export interface State {
  message: string,
  increment?: () => void
}

export default createProviderConsumer<State>({
    message: 'Hello!'
  },
  (subscribe, child) => (
    <context-consumer subscribe={subscribe} renderer={child} />
  )
);

2. Pass state to the tunnel's Provider Component.

Usually this will be at the top of your component tree. Think of this as a way to take state from the parent component and then make it available to components further down the tree. That is essentially what the Provider Component does.

// Filename: './components/my-app.tsx'

import Tunnel from './data/message'; // Import the Tunnel

@Component({
  tag: 'my-app',
})
export class MyApp {

  @Prop() intro: string = 'Hello!';
  @State() message: string = '';

  count: number = 0;

  componentWillLoad() {
    this.increment();
  }

  increment = () => {
    this.count = this.count + 1;
    this.message = `${this.intro} ${this.count}`;
  }

  render() {
    const tunnelState = {
      message: this.message,
      increment: this.increment
    };
    return (
      <div>
        <header>
          <h1>Stencil App Starter</h1>
        </header>
        <Tunnel.Provider state={tunnelState}>
          <some-child-component/>
        </Tunnel.Provider>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

3. Place your state consumption points.

You can then create an exit point anywhere within your component tree that lives below the Tunnel.Provider. In this case we are accessing the state using a Consumer Component. There are other approaches to consuming the information but in most cases within an application you will use a Consumer Component.

// Filename: './components/way-down-child.tsx'

import { Component } from '@stencil/core';
import Tunnel from './data/message'; // Import the tunnel

@Component({
  tag: 'way-down-child',
})
export class WayDownChild {
  render() {
    return (
      <Tunnel.Consumer>
        {({ message, increment }) => (
          <div class='app-profile'>
            <button onClick={increment}>Increment Num</button>
            <p>{message}</p>
          </div>
        )}
      </Tunnel.Consumer>
    );
  }
}