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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

Summary


Redux is one of the most popular libraries used for state management in the frontend ecosystem today. In this chapter, we discussed the need for Redux and the principles that make the library stand out. Moreover, we discussed some of the fundamental concepts of functional programming, and how these concepts are used in the development of the Redux library. We also covered some of the Redux ecosystem and the Redux life cycle, and we created an outline for the project. We implemented the bare minimum version of Redux, extending it to create a larger project.

In the next chapter, you will learn about test-driven development, and we will set up the JEST framework for testing. Moreover, we will continue to use the code that we developed in this chapter in the upcoming chapters.