Learning Redux

Creating posts via the API

Creating posts will work very similar to creating a user. We will replace our synchronous createPost action creator with an asynchronous action creator that sends a request to the API. Instead of returning the action object, we will use the thunkCreator utility function we created earlier:

1. We start by turning our CREATE_POST action type into three action types. Edit src/actionTypes.js, and find the following line:

export const CREATE_POST = 'CREATE_POST'

Replace it with these three action types:

export const CREATE_POST_REQUEST = 'CREATE_POST_REQUEST'export const CREATE_POST_SUCCESS = 'CREATE_POST_SUCCESS'export const CREATE_POST_FAILURE = 'CREATE_POST_FAILURE'

2. Then, we import the new action types in src/actions/posts.js ...