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Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx

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Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx

Overview of this book

Managing the state of large-scale web applications is a highly challenging task with the need to align different components, backends, and web workers harmoniously. When it comes to Angular, you can use NgRx, which combines the simplicity of Redux with the reactive programming power of RxJS to build your application architecture, making your code elegant and easy to reason about, debug, and test. In this book, we start by looking at the different ways of architecting Angular applications and some of the patterns that are involved in it. This will be followed by a discussion on one-way data flow, the Flux pattern, and the origin of Redux. The book introduces you to declarative programming or, more precisely, functional programming and talks about its advantages. We then move on to the reactive programming paradigm. Reactive programming is a concept heavily used in Angular and is at the core of NgRx. Later, we look at RxJS, as a library and master it. We thoroughly describe how Redux works and how to implement it from scratch. The two last chapters of the book cover everything NgRx has to offer in terms of core functionality and supporting libraries, including how to build a micro implementation of NgRx. This book will empower you to not only use Redux and NgRx to the fullest, but also feel confident in building your own version, should you need it.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Best practices

So far, we have gone through a lot. We have covered principles, core concepts, and even got to build our own Redux implementation. We should be mighty proud of ourselves at this point. There is something we have yet to cover, though, and that is how we use Redux in an optimal way. There are some key rules we can follow.

Organize your file system optimally. You should not have a few files when building an app but rather many, and usually organized by feature. This leads to the following file setup for a feature:

  • Reducer: We should have one file, per reducer, for this
  • Actions: We should have a file describing all the actions we could possibly dispatch
  • View/component file: This has nothing to do with Redux but, regardless of the framework we go with, we usually have a file describing the component we are trying to build

There is another aspect that is worth doing...