Call function after dispatch from redux has finished

Question

All around it but not quite as I have enough of an idea of redux-thunk and of react-router but I am not getting this seemingly simple idea of:

Answer 1

Have your action creator return a promise. This way when you invoke it, you can use .then() and in your then handler you can push a new address to the history.

Thunks will return functions normally, but a promise differs in that you can act after completion.

Example:

static myActionCreator(somevar) {
  return dispatch => {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      dispatch({
        type: "myaction",
        something: somevar
      });

      resolve()
    });
  }
}

So in this case, your thunk returns a promise. Then when you invoke like this:

this.props.myActionCreator(somevar)
.then(() => {
  this.props.history.push('/winning')
})

This thunk is just dispatching an action, but you could have some async call in there that has a callback, etc. and you resolve on completion.