[javascript] How can I display a modal dialog in Redux that performs asynchronous actions?

In my opinion the bare minimum implementation has two requirements. A state that keeps track of whether the modal is open or not, and a portal to render the modal outside of the standard react tree.

The ModalContainer component below implements those requirements along with corresponding render functions for the modal and the trigger, which is responsible for executing the callback to open the modal.

import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import Portal from 'react-portal';

class ModalContainer extends React.Component {
  state = {
    isOpen: false,
  };

  openModal = () => {
    this.setState(() => ({ isOpen: true }));
  }

  closeModal = () => {
    this.setState(() => ({ isOpen: false }));
  }

  renderModal() {
    return (
      this.props.renderModal({
        isOpen: this.state.isOpen,
        closeModal: this.closeModal,
      })
    );
  }

  renderTrigger() {
     return (
       this.props.renderTrigger({
         openModal: this.openModal
       })
     )
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <React.Fragment>
        <Portal>
          {this.renderModal()}
        </Portal>
        {this.renderTrigger()}
      </React.Fragment>
    );
  }
}

ModalContainer.propTypes = {
  renderModal: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  renderTrigger: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
};

export default ModalContainer;

And here's a simple use case...

import React from 'react';
import Modal from 'react-modal';
import Fade from 'components/Animations/Fade';
import ModalContainer from 'components/ModalContainer';

const SimpleModal = ({ isOpen, closeModal }) => (
  <Fade visible={isOpen}> // example use case with animation components
    <Modal>
      <Button onClick={closeModal}>
        close modal
      </Button>
    </Modal>
  </Fade>
);

const SimpleModalButton = ({ openModal }) => (
  <button onClick={openModal}>
    open modal
  </button>
);

const SimpleButtonWithModal = () => (
   <ModalContainer
     renderModal={props => <SimpleModal {...props} />}
     renderTrigger={props => <SimpleModalButton {...props} />}
   />
);

export default SimpleButtonWithModal;

I use render functions, because I want to isolate state management and boilerplate logic from the implementation of the rendered modal and trigger component. This allows the rendered components to be whatever you want them to be. In your case, I suppose the modal component could be a connected component that receives a callback function that dispatches an asynchronous action.

If you need to send dynamic props to the modal component from the trigger component, which hopefully doesn't happen too often, I recommend wrapping the ModalContainer with a container component that manages the dynamic props in its own state and enhance the original render methods like so.

import React from 'react'
import partialRight from 'lodash/partialRight';
import ModalContainer from 'components/ModalContainer';

class ErrorModalContainer extends React.Component {
  state = { message: '' }

  onError = (message, callback) => {
    this.setState(
      () => ({ message }),
      () => callback && callback()
    );
  }

  renderModal = (props) => (
    this.props.renderModal({
       ...props,
       message: this.state.message,
    })
  )

  renderTrigger = (props) => (
    this.props.renderTrigger({
      openModal: partialRight(this.onError, props.openModal)
    })
  )

  render() {
    return (
      <ModalContainer
        renderModal={this.renderModal}
        renderTrigger={this.renderTrigger}
      />
    )
  }
}

ErrorModalContainer.propTypes = (
  ModalContainer.propTypes
);

export default ErrorModalContainer;