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MERN Quick Start Guide

By : Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Book Image

MERN Quick Start Guide

3 (1)
By: Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova

Overview of this book

The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Defining actions and action creators

Reducers accept an action object that describes the action that is going to be performed and decides how to transform the state based on this action object.

Actions are just plain objects and they have only one required property that needs to be present, the action-type. For instance:

const action = { 
    type: 'INCREMENT_COUNTER', 
} 

We can also provide additional properties as well. For instance:

const action = { 
    type: 'INCREMENT_COUNTER', 
    incrementBy: 2, 
} 

Actions creators are just functions that return actions, for instance:

const increment = (incrementBy) => ({ 
    type: 'INCREMENT_COUNTER', 
    incrementBy, 
}) 

Getting ready

In this...