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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)

Routing

In the previous chapter, you learned how to write tests with Jest for all the elements of our Redux application.

Until now, our application only consisted of a single page. Most growing applications, however, use multiple pages to ensure the user interface does not get too cluttered. For example, let's assume we want to add some information about the blog, like an About section. As this information is not always important to the user, it would not make sense to always display it on the main page. Hiding the information with our HiddenContent component would work, but be a bit clumsy if we wanted to add other kinds of content/pages later. To be able to use multiple pages, we are going to implement a router in our application. Furthermore, the router can provide separate pages for the post category filters.

In this chapter, you are going to learn how to implement multiple...