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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

Chapter 5. React with Redux

In this chapter, we are going to stay connected around the use of React components and containers in our application. We will continue the code base we had in Chapter 1, Understanding Redux, through to Chapter 4Concept of Immutability, in order to build user interfaces for our small hospital management system. While building the interfaces, we are going to learn about the principles of React, ReactJS life cycle components, accessing document object model (DOM) elements, and presentational and container components.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the following topics:

  • Components of React
  • Principles of React
  • New features in React 16
  • Building user interfaces
  • Building the project structure
  • Understanding React component libraries
  • Connecting React components with Redux
  • Understanding selectors