How to dispatch a Redux action with a timeout?

Question

I have an action that updates the notification state of my application. Usually, this notification will be an error or info of some sort. I need to then dispatch another act

Answer 1

Redux itself is a pretty verbose library, and for such stuff you would have to use something like Redux-thunk, which will give a dispatch function, so you will be able to dispatch closing of the notification after several seconds.

I have created a library to address issues like verbosity and composability, and your example will look like the following:

import { createTile, createSyncTile } from 'redux-tiles';
import { sleep } from 'delounce';

const notifications = createSyncTile({
  type: ['ui', 'notifications'],
  fn: ({ params }) => params.data,
  // to have only one tile for all notifications
  nesting: ({ type }) => [type],
});

const notificationsManager = createTile({
  type: ['ui', 'notificationManager'],
  fn: ({ params, dispatch, actions }) => {
    dispatch(actions.ui.notifications({ type: params.type, data: params.data }));
    await sleep(params.timeout || 5000);
    dispatch(actions.ui.notifications({ type: params.type, data: null }));
    return { closed: true };
  },
  nesting: ({ type }) => [type],
});

So we compose sync actions for showing notifications inside async action, which can request some info the background, or check later whether the notification was closed manually.