Redux-persist: Empty the store, is this an acceptable way of doing that?

[giacomocerquone]

Hi, I just searched through the github issues to see how people are resetting their store but I didn't find anyone doing what I'm doing and so I ask here if this is ok or should be avoided.

Basically I saw issues like these: #63, #579 and instead of using flush() and purge() methods, I'm using directly the native method of the store I setted on redux-persist to clear everything up.
For example, in react-native with asyncstorage, when I need to delete everything, I just do:

AsyncStorage.clear()

I know this isn't always ok, you may be storing something else other than redux-persist stuff, but if it is ok for you, why don't use it?

UPDATE: With v5 I noticed this doesn't work anymore, why?

[DJTB]

[redacted] - my comment was actually unrelated.

[rt2zz]

AsyncStorage.clear() will still clear v5 - but be warned it will clear all state, even that which does not belong to redux-persist.

I would definitely recommend using purge, it is well tested and both #63 and #579 were questions not bugs.

Basically you can either do

// method 1
import { purgeStoredState } from 'redux-persist'
purgeStoredState(persistConfig)

// method 2
persistor.purge()