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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

History


The react-router has a dependency on the history package. The history package is a JavaScript library utilized in maintaining sessions in any JavaScript application. Consider the following quote from the history documentation (https://github.com/ReactTraining/history).

The history object has several properties and methods:

  • action: The current action, PUSH, POP, or REPLACE.
  • length: The count of entries in the history stack.
  • location: The current location, which includes the hash, pathname, search, and state properties:
    • hash: Hash fragment.
    • pathname: URL path.
    • search: URL query string.
    • state: The state information provided when navigating from one route to the other, using location.pushState.
  • block(): A function that registers a prompt message that will be displayed when the user tries to navigate away from the current page.
  • createHref(): A function that constructs a URL segment; it accepts an object with the pathname, search, and hash properties.
  • go(n): A function that navigates through the...