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Redux Quick Start Guide

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
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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 REST principle


Remote Function Call (RFC) 2616 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) defines a set of principles for building HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) standards. Today's REST is based on these principles. In a nutshell, these principles can be understood as follows:

  • Everything is a resource: All the data on the Internet has a format to describe by content-type
  • All the resources are identifiable by a unique identifier: Each resource is accessible via the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) and is identified uniquely. 
  • Resources can be manipulated by standardHTTPmethods: RFC 2616 defines eight HTTP verbs: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE, and CONNECT
  • Resources have multiple formats and can be created in different representations: Resources can be created in XML format or JSON format. In our project, we prefer the JSON format. 

The HTTP verbs and HTTP response status code

We are going to use the first four of the most commonly used HTTP verbs for Create, Read...