Redux

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Maintaining application state is hard.

Payment Gateway

Application

Application

Cart

Payment Gateway

Application

Cart

Payment Gateway

Product Page

Search

Application

Cart

Payment Gateway

Product Page

Search

😒

You no longer understand what happens in your app as you have lost control over the when, why, and how of its state.

- The Redux Docs

Redux helps simplify application state.

Application

Cart

Payment Gateway

Product Page

Search

Application

Cart

Payment Gateway

Product Page

Search

Store

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Store

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Store

Action

Reducer

Action

An object describing what happened.

Reducer

A pure function that defines how the state changes for a given action.

Action

{
    type: 'ADD_ITEM_TO_CART',
    data: {
        id: 7337,
        name: 'OnePlus 6',
        price: 34999
    }
}

Reducer

const initialState = {
    items: [],
    amount: 0,
};

function(state = initialState, action) {
    let newState;

    if (action.type === 'ADD_ITEM_TO_CART') {
        newState = {
            ...state,
            items: [...state.items, action.data],
            amount: state.amount + action.data.amount,
        };
    } else {
        newState = state;
    }

    return newState;
}

Three Principles

Single source of truth

The state is read-only

Changes are made using pure functions

Redux helps make application state predictable.

Redux: The Library

Creating a store

import { createStore } from 'redux';


function reducer(state = {}, action) {
    ...
}


const store = createStore(reducer);

The

store object

const store = createStore(reducer);


store.getState();
/*
    This method returns the state of
    the store.
*/


store.dispatch(); 
/*
    This method allows you to dispatch
    `actions` to the store. Takes an
    `action` as a parameter.
*/

store.subscribe();
/*
    This method allows you to add
    listeners that trigger on store
    updates. Takes a callback as a 
    parameter.
*/

Demo

Action

Creators

function addItem(item) {
    return {
        type: 'ADD_ITEM_TO_CART',
        data: item,
    }
}

Multiple

reducers

import { combineReducers } from 'redux';

function cartReducer(state = {},  action) {
    ...
}

function productReducer(state = {},  action) {
    ...
}


const rootReducer = combineReducer({
    cart: cartReducer,
    product: productReducer,
});

/*
This would generate the following state object

{
    cart: {
        // all state values managed by cartReducer
    },
    product: {
        // all state values managed by productReducer
    }
}
*/

const store = createStore(rootReducer);



A sort-of real world demo

Developer experience

Debugging

Root cause identification

Write tests

Time travelΒ 

Bonus!

Track user sessions

Optimistic updates

Share actions over the network - collaboration

That's all folks! πŸš€

An Introduction to Redux - v2

By Abinav Seelan

An Introduction to Redux - v2

Talk given at Flipkart's UI Bootcamp, 2018

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