State Management

Amplify uses Vuex 3 for state management. If you're coming from Vue 3, you might have used Vuex 4, which works similarly, or Pinia -- which is similar but simplifies some of the most annoying parts of Vuex. The Vuex docs have some great information for Vuex newcomers; alternatively, there are tons of great resources on YouTube.

• Note: The store parameter is an object that will expose state, actions, mutations, and any defined getters or setters. The payload parameter holds whatever was passed in by a component.

State

• zipcode (string): The current zip code, as input by the user.
• letterId (string): A LOB template id, generated during the letter creation workflow.
• lobReturnAddressId (string): The user's return address id, generated after address validation.
• selectedRep (object): Address information for the user's selected representative.
• userData (object): Other user data collected during letter creation.

Mutations

• setGenericValue(state, { key: string, value: any }): void
  • Sets the state attribute given by key parameter to value.

Actions

• setLetterAttrs(store, payload: object<string, any>): void

  • Updates state when the payload and state have a matching attribute.

• dumpStateToLocalStorange({ state }, sessionId: string): void

  • Before a Stripe checkout redirect, this method will capture the user's current state and store in their browser's Local Storage.

• retrieveStatefromLocalStorage(store, sessionId: string): void

  • Reconstitutes the user's state after a successful Stripe checkout redirects the user back to Amplify. Once the state has been retrieved, it is deleted from Local Storage.