Getting Started With React - Redux

The philosophy of React is very simple. UI is most predictable when it’s the pure function of state. React solves this problem. UI = f (state)

And Redux is the data/state management library. Redux attempts to make state mutations predictable by imposing certain restrictions on how and when the state updates can happen.

This week, I am learning Redux and  here, just sharing few of my learnings. We use Redux  for JavaScript apps. Redux helps us write the applications which behave consistently, run in different environments (client, server, and native), and are very easy to test. We can use Redux apps with React, Angular, OR jQuery. Also, Redux works especially well with libraries like React because it lets you describe the UI as a function of state, and Redux emits state updates in response to actions.

Redux asks you to - 

• Describe application states as plain objects and arrays.
• Describe changes in the system as plain objects.
• Describe the logic for handling changes as pure functions.

Redux works with three simple principles

1. Store
   Single source of truth - The state of your whole application is stored in an object tree within a single.
   
   
2. Action
   State is read-only - The only way to mutate the state is to dispatch an action, an object describing what happened
   
   
3. Reducer
   Changes are made with pure functions - To specify how the state tree is transformed by actions, you write

How to Install Redux

Just write- // npm install --save redux //

Use NPM here package manager.

Most likely, you'll also need the React bindings and the developer tools.

// npm install --save react-redux npm
install --save-dev redux-devtools //

In react it works in flow,

STORE- Action - Reducer - VIEW

Just write- // npm install --save redux //

Use NPM here package manager.

Redux has many elegantly designed features, and compared to Fluxxor, you can write a lot less repetitive code and logic. Out of all features, I like Redux’s Action the most. After reading the source code for Action, I realized there are a lot of functional programming concepts in the code.

Sharing the example code of Redux+ React App.



In the code above, we can see that the App component app is wrapped inside the Provider component, and this Provider component uses a prop to point us to the app’s state,

{ todos: state.todos };

Then use,

// actions/todos.js
export function addTodo(text) {
return { type: types.ADD_TODO, text };
}

However, through a connect function, our App component will obtain a this.props.action.addTodo, and this function dispatches the original action creator that was returned by an action object - dispatch(ActionCreators.addTodo(...)).

So, this was just the overview. Stay tuned with C# Corner for descriptive explanation.