In the bank of Jordan river, in the Moab land, Moses wished to explain his testament to Sons of Israel and that`s what is he said:
I'm looking at great
angular-ngrx-material-starter repo of great guy named Tom Trajan
And here is the code of "auth.effects" file, where you can clear see the usage of "tap" operator:
@Effect({ dispatch: false })
login(): Observable {
return this.actions$
.ofType(AuthActionTypes.LOGIN)
.pipe(
tap(action => // <-- code="" here="" isauthenticated:="" see="" tap="" the="" thing="" this.localstorageservice.setitem="" true="">
-->
So what is this "tap"(lettable operator) thing doing???
Documentation
When looking into rxjs
docs you can see that "tap" is newer version of "do" operator.
Also you can see following sentence: invokes an action upon graceful or exceptional termination of the observable sequence.
That means - if you want something to be done regardless of outcome of observable you can do it with "tap"
Example
All the places in he code which only taking care of storing the payload(and not trying to modify the outcome of observable ) in the localstorage making usage if "tap":
@Effect({ dispatch: false })
persistTodos(): Observable {
return this.actions$
.ofType(TodosActionTypes.PERSIST)
.pipe(
tap((action: ActionTodosPersist) =>
this.localStorageService.setItem(TODOS_KEY, action.payload.todos)
)
);
}
When observable outcome is somehow modified - the "map" operator comes to the stage:
@Effect()
loadPizzas$ = this.actions$.ofType(pizzaActions.LOAD_PIZZAS).pipe(
switchMap(() => {
return this.pizzaService
.getPizzas()
.pipe(
map(pizzas => new pizzaActions.LoadPizzasSuccess(pizzas)),
catchError(error => of(new pizzaActions.LoadPizzasFail(error)))
);
})
);