[Feature]: Accessing loaders in router actions?

[aress31]

Describe what's incorrect/missing in the documentation

Is it possible to access a route loader in the same route action?

For instance, something like:

const userViewActionHandler = async ({ request, loader }) => {
  const { whatever } = loader;
};

That would be super nice if this was possible from a DX perspective and definitely worth adding to the doc IMHO.

[brophdawg11]

It's not possible. This also doesn't really make sense - loaders run after actions so the new data is not available yet. If you want data from a prior loader execution (that's about to be made stale), you can send that along in your formData.

[aress31]

This is what I am doing atm, I am just passing it through the formData. But was wondering if we could improve this behaviour.

[brophdawg11]

loaders/actions in Remix are stateless API endpoints - so it's best to think of them them that way in React Router as well, even though they happen to run in a shared memory space.

That said, since you are in a shared-memory space (the browser), there's nothing stopping you from sharing whatever data you want through window or singletons implementations. I wouldn't recommend it, but you could.