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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

Project structure


The complete code for the backend server is available in CH07/server. In this chapter, we are going to understand how the REST API can be built. Start with an empty folder and follow these steps:

  1. Initiate the project with yarn init or by creating a package.json file. We are already familiar with the process of adding and removing any npm packages from the project. Simply copy the package.json file from CH08 into your new project folder. 
  2. Create a folder called server where we can place all our backend logic. We are going to use the express framework to create backend. Inside the server folder, create a file called index.js. Inside the file, we initiate the express server with the required parameter, as follows: 
/* eslint consistent-return:0 import/order:0 */

const path = require('path');
const express = require('express');
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
const methodOverride = require('method-override');
const session = require('express-session');
const bodyParser...