Passing construction parameters to redux middleware

Question

I was curious if there is a way to pass a parameter to a middleware without retrieving it from the state. What I want to do is to pass a generic function that we are using that determines if the user is authenticated or not. So rather than retreiving the authentication information from the state which will be code duplication, I want to pass isAuthenticated function to the middleware.

I don't think this is implemented natively in applyMiddleware framework but maybe someone has a work around for this situation.

Answer 1

Ok the right way to do this turned out to be a wrapper function that will wrap the actual middleware function

export const middlewareFunction = (store) => (next) => (action) => {
    do some stuff with something...
}

If this is your actual middleware function, than you should be applying the middleware as

applyMiddleware(middlewareFunction);

What you should be doing to pass a parameter is to implement a function like

export const middlewareWrapper = (args) => {
    do some stuff with your args 
    return (state) => (next) => (action) => {
        do more stuff with your args and actions
    }
} 

With this syntax you can apply the middleware as :

applyMiddleware(middlewareWrapper(args));