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Redux Quick Start Guide

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

Redux Quick Start Guide

By: James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya

Overview of this book

Starting with a detailed overview of Redux, we will follow the test-driven development (TDD) approach to develop single-page applications. We will set up JEST for testing and use JEST to test React, Redux, Redux-Sage, Reducers, and other components. We will then add important middleware and set up immutableJS in our application. We will use common data structures such as Map, List, Set, and OrderedList from the immutableJS framework. We will then add user interfaces using ReactJS, Redux-Form, and Ant Design. We will explore the use of react-router-dom and its functions. We will create a list of routes that we will need in order to create our application, and explore routing on the server site and create the required routes for our application. We will then debug our application and integrate Redux Dev tools. We will then set up our API server and create the API required for our application. We will dive into a modern approach to structuring our server site components in terms of Model, Controller, Helper functions, and utilities functions. We will explore the use of NodeJS with Express to build the REST API components. Finally, we will venture into the possibilities of extending the application for further research, including deployment and optimization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

The Redux ecosystem


When we talk about Redux, we usually include other libraries that work together in harmony. Here, we will discuss some of the important libraries that work well together, as follows:

  • react-redux: This allows us to communicate in both directions, between React and Redux (https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux). It is a binding between React and Redux that allows us to create containers and listen to the store changes, reflecting that into a presentational component. We will explore more about container components (smart components) and presentational components (dumb components) in upcoming chapters.
  • redux-devtools: This is the official implementation of developer tools for Redux, and it allows for watching state changes, live to edit actions, time traveling, and more (https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools).
  • redux-promise: This is middleware for Redux, allowing you to dispatch JavaScript promises to the Redux store (https://github.com/acdlite/redux-promise).

An official overview of the Redux ecosystem can be found on the Redux website, at http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/Ecosystem.html.

There is a community-maintained repository called awesome Redux. This repository contains resources, libraries, utilities, boilerplate code, and examples associated with Redux, and is located at https://github.com/xgrommx/awesome-redux.