Polling with a NgRx Effect

Modified October 12, 2022

Tim Deschryver

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Polling with a NgRx Effect link

Use case link

You want to periodically the refresh data in the NgRx Store.

Solution link

Create a NgRx Effect that retrieves the data via a service every x minutes, this can be done with the RxJS timer operator.

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refresh$ = createEffect(() => {
  // every 10 minutes
  return timer(0, 600000).pipe(
    switchMap(() =>
      this.customersService.get().pipe(
        map((data) => refreshSuccess(data)),
        catchError((response) => refreshFailed(response)),
      ),
    ),
  );
});

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