Redux showing old state when a screen is re opened

Question

I have a login screen with 2 fields email & password it works fine, but if the user inputs into either field, then presses the back button to go to the previous screen, then goes back to the login screen, the screen should be reset and blank but it contains the previous user input.

How can I clear/reset the user input i.e (state/props) when the user presses the back button and the screen closes. I'm using redux thunk, React Navigation 3

Here is my code for the login screen.

LoginScreen

class LoginScreen extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.unsubscriber = null;
}

componentWillUnmount(): void {
    if (this.unsubscriber) {
    this.unsubscriber();
    }
}

onEmailChange(text) {
    this.props.emailChanged(text);
}

onPasswordChange(text) {
    this.props.passwordChanged(text);
}

onConfirmPasswordChange(text) {
    this.props.confirmPasswordChanged(text);
}

onLoginButtonPress() {
    let {email, password} = this.props;
    let currentAnonymousFirebaseUser = firebase.auth().currentUser;
    this.props.loginUser({email, password, currentAnonymousFirebaseUser});
}

renderError() {
    if (this.props.error) {
      return (
        <View
          style={{backgroundColor: "#fff", paddingBottom: 5, paddingTop: 5}}>
          <Text style={styles.errorTextStyle}>{this.props.error}</Text>
        </View>
      );
    }
}

renderLoginButton() {
    if (this.props.loading) {
        return <Spinner size="large" />;
    }
    return <Button onPress={() => this.onLoginButtonPress()}>Login</Button>;
}

render() {
    return (
      <Card>
        <CardSection>
          <Row>
            <Input
              label="Email"
              placeholder="[email protected]"
              onChangeText={this.onEmailChange.bind(this)}
              value={this.props.email}
            />
          </Row>
        </CardSection>

        <CardSection>
          <Row>
            <Input
              secureTextEntry
              label="Password"
              placeHolder="password"
              onChangeText={this.onPasswordChange.bind(this)}
              value={this.props.password}
            />
          </Row>
        </CardSection>

        {this.renderError()}

        <CardSection>
          <Row>{this.renderLoginButton()}</Row>
        </CardSection>
      </Card>
      );
   }
}

const mapStateToProps = ({auth}) => {
    const {email, password, confirmPassword, error, loading} = auth;
    return {email, password, confirmPassword, error, loading};
};

export default connect(mapStateToProps, {
    emailChanged,
    passwordChanged,
    confirmPasswordChanged,
    loginUser
})(LoginScreen);

Reducer

const INITIAL_STATE = {
    email: "",
    password: "",
    confirmPassword: "",
    user: null,
    error: "",
    loading: false
};

export default (state = INITIAL_STATE, action) => {
    console.log(action);

    switch (action.type) {
        case EMAIL_CHANGED:
          return {...state, email: action.payload};

        case PASSWORD_CHANGED:
          return {...state, password: action.payload};

        case CONFIRM_PASSWORD_CHANGED:
          return {...state, confirmPassword: action.payload};

        case CREATE_USER_ACCOUNT:
          return {...state, loading: true, error: ""};

        case CREATE_USER_ACCOUNT_SUCCESS:
          return {...state, ...INITIAL_STATE, user: action.payload};

        case CREATE_USER_ACCOUNT_FAIL:
          return {...state, error: action.payload, loading: false};

       case LOGIN_USER:
          return {...state, loading: true, error: ""};

        case LOGIN_USER_ANONYMOUSLY:
          return {...state};

        case LOGIN_USER_SUCCESS:
          return {...state, ...INITIAL_STATE, user: action.payload};

        case LOGIN_USER_FAIL:
          return {...state, error: action.payload, loading: false};

        default:
          return state;
    }
};

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You can make another action for clearing your data in redux, For example

const clearData = () => {
  return{
  type: "CLEAR"
 };
};

and in your reducer you can just use this clearData, For example

 case "CLEAR"
 return {...state, ...INITIAL_STATE}

or

 case "CLEAR"
 return {...state, email: INITIAL_STATE.email}

It depends on your use case. When everything is done.

Just call this actions on your componentWillUnmount in your login screen

for example

componentWillUnmount() {
 this.props.clearData();
}