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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

Getting started with Immutable JS


Our aim is to learn how to set up Immutable JS. We will use the create-react-app (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) configuration. Go ahead and download the starter code from GitHub, CH04. Remove everything inside of the src folder, or copy it to some other place for future reference.

So, what is inside the template files? There are simply some base dependencies and a configuration of Webpack, so that we can use ES6 syntax and CSS. You already learned how to configure Redux in Chapter 1, Understanding Redux, and other libraries in Chapter 2, Testing, and Chapter 3, Routing. Adding Immutable JS is not rocket science; it can be done as follows:

yarn add immutable --exact OR npm install immutable

Components of Immutable JS

Immutable JS (https://facebook.github.io/immutable-js/) comes with a bunch of data types that we can use. Most of the time, you will end up using Map, List, fromJS, and Set. We encourage you to dig into other data types on the documentation...