thedgbrt · January 11, 2016 23:14 · Jan 11, 2016
diff --git a/ApiClient.js b/ApiClient.js
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+import superagentCache from 'superagent-cache';
+import config from '../config';
+
+const methods = ['get', 'post', 'put', 'patch', 'del'];
+const superagent = superagentCache(null, {backgroundRefreshInterval: 500});
+
+function formatUrl(path) {
+  const adjustedPath = path[0] !== '/' ? '/' + path : path;
+  if (__SERVER__) {
+    // Prepend host and port of the API server to the path.
+    return 'http://' + config.apiHost + adjustedPath;
+  }
+  // Prepend `/api` to relative URL, to proxy to API server.
+  return '/api' + adjustedPath;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This silly underscore is here to avoid a mysterious "ReferenceError: ApiClient is not defined" error.
+ * See Issue #14. https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example/issues/14
+ *
+ * Remove it at your own risk.
+ */
+class _ApiClient {
+  constructor(req) {
+    methods.forEach((method) =>
+      this[method] = (path, { params, data } = {}) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+
+        const request = superagent[method](formatUrl(path));
+
+        if (params) {
+          request.query(params);
+        }
+
+        if (__SERVER__ && req.get('cookie')) {
+          request.set('cookie', req.get('cookie'));
+        }
+
+        if (data) {
+          request.send(data);
+        }
+
+        request.responseProp('body').backgroundRefresh();
+
+        request.end((err, { body } = {}) => body ? reject(err || body) : resolve(err));
+
+      }));
+  }
+}
+
+const ApiClient = _ApiClient;
+
+export default ApiClient;