Prismic Utils

A collection of functions for fetching and parsing data from a Prismic CMS

Important Links

• Pipeline
• NPM Package

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Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Deserializing Documents
3. Reducers
4. Action Creators
5. Fetching Data
6. Utils

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Installation

Yarn

yarn add prismic-utils

NPM

npm install prismic-utils --save

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Deserializing Data

Deserialize a Prismic document into a simple object

import { deserializeDocument } from 'prismic-utils'

const page = deserializeDocument(doc, options)

Params

doc: the Prismic document that has been fetched from the Prismic API

Nest deserialized data

Use kebab case when naming your Prismic fields to nest your deserialized data.

E.g. header-title will deserialize to { header: { title: '' } }

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Reducers

Create a Redux reducer to manage Prismic doc(s)

Eliminate the need to write repetitive reducers to manage data from Prismic docs.

import { createDocumentsReducer } from 'prismic-utils'

combineReducers({
	pages: createDocumentsReducer('pages')
})

Params

namespace: this will be used to decide which actions to act upon

• createDocumentsReducer('pages') will listen for pages/FETCH, pages/FETCH_SUCCESS and pages/FETCH_FAILURE

options: additional options

• fetch: override the default handler used for FETCH action
• fetchSuccess: override the default handler used for FETCH_SUCCESS action
• fetchFailure: override the default handler used for FETCH_FAILURE action
• initialState: override the default initial state i.e. {}

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Action Creators

Create a Redux action creator

Eliminate the need to write repetitive files to fetch Prismic docs and dispatch the relevant actions.

import { createDocumentsAction } from 'prismic-utils'

dispatch(createDocumentsAction('page', options))

createDocumentsAction returns a function to be used by Redux Thunk to fetch your documents and dispatch the relevant actions.

Params

namespace: this will be used to namespace the actions

• dispatch(createDocumentsAction('pages', options)) will dispatch the following actions
• pages/FETCH when the request is being fired off
• pages/FETCH_SUCCESS when the request is fulfilled, with the data key of the payload containing the found documents
• pages/FETCH_FAILURE if there was an error during the request
• token can be an actual token, or you can pass in a function that will be called with the redux store, so you can retrieve your token from your store

options: additional options that will be used by fetchDocuments

createDocumentAction is the same as createDocumentsAction, except it will only retrieve and return a single document.

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Fetching Data

fetchDocuments

Fetch documents from the Prismic API

import { fetchDocuments } from 'prismic-utils'

fetchDocuments(options)
	.then((docs) => docs) // docs will be an array of documents

Params

options: various options to use when fetching:

• type: the type of document to fetch e.g. page
• token: the document ref to fetch (defaults to Api.master())
• options: Query options, as in https://prismic.io/docs/javascript/query-the-api/query-options-reference
• predicates (string | array): Predicates options, as in https://prismic.io/docs/javascript/query-the-api/query-predicates-reference
• repository: Repository to query from

fetchDocument

Fetch a single document

import { fetchDocument } from 'prismic-utils'

fetchDocument(options)
	.then((doc) => doc)

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Utils

Prismic utils also exports a couple of useful utilities

PrismicRichText

This is a React component that can be used to render Rich Text fields using all react components, rather than relying on inserting raw HTML using dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

import { PrismicRichText } from 'prismic-utils'

const MyComponent = ({ myRichTextField }) => (
	<PrismicRichText>
		{myRichTextField.data}
	</PrismicRichText>
)