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Redux Quick Start Guide

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

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 TODO app


Now, let's create our super fancy TODO app. You may be wondering why every blogger and book covers this example. Well, it is pretty easy to understand, and it can be used to visualize the concept. Are you wondering what we are going to build? The answer is a single-page interface, as follows:

Why does it say Rask Lege? Well, it is just a name. In Norwegian, Rask Lege means fast doctor. It is not relevant, but it's good to know.

Components

Let's build our components. We'll start by breaking our component down into the main component, the ToDo list component, the AddTodo component, and the Footer component. The code must be self-explanatory.

App.js is the main container component that gets the TODO states and passes them to the required components. We use the Redux connect function to connect our container and components. This should make sense, having read Chapter 1, Understanding Redux. Let's examine our Todo.js file, as follows:

//Todo.js
import React, { PureComponent } from "react...