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Learning Redux

By : Daniel Bugl
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Learning Redux

By: Daniel Bugl

Overview of this book

The book starts with a short introduction to the principles and the ecosystem of Redux, then moves on to show how to implement the basic elements of Redux and put them together. Afterward, you are going to learn how to integrate Redux with other frameworks, such as React and Angular. Along the way, you are going to develop a blog application. To practice developing growing applications with Redux, we are going to start from nothing and keep adding features to our application throughout the book. You are going to learn how to integrate and use Redux DevTools to debug applications, and access external APIs with Redux. You are also going to get acquainted with writing tests for all elements of a Redux application. Furthermore, we are going to cover important concepts in web development, such as routing, user authentication, and communication with a backend server After explaining how to use Redux and how powerful its ecosystem can be, the book teaches you how to make your own abstractions on top of Redux, such as higher-order reducers and middleware. By the end of the book, you are going to be able to develop and maintain Redux applications with ease. In addition to learning about Redux, you are going be familiar with its ecosystem, and learn a lot about JavaScript itself, including best practices and patterns.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Why render on the server?

Before we start implementing server-side rendering in our application, let's take a moment to think about why it would be useful.

Current process to load the page

At the moment, users have to wait for the following process to be completed until the page is loaded:

  1. The client makes a request to our server, which serves the initial HTML.
  2. The initial HTML is loaded and parsed.
  3. CSS and JS are imported from the HTML file gets that requested and parsed.
  4. The JS code is loaded and React is initialized.
  5. React draws the initial state (no data yet).
  6. Data is fetched and pulled into the Redux store.
  7. React rerenders using the data from the Redux store.
  8. The app is fully loaded now.

As you can imagine, this...