Learning Redux

Single source of truth

Redux consists of a single store, which is a JavaScript value containing the entire state of your application. A single source of truth comes with a lot of benefits:

• In traditional applications, the state is stored in different places across the whole application. With a single source of truth, debugging becomes easy, as you simply have one value to look at.
• It is easy to create universal apps, as you can serialize the application state on the server and send it to the client without much effort.
• Generalized functionalities, such as undo/redo, become easy to implement. For example, you can simply drop in a library that turns (a part of) your state into an undoable state.

To access the application state, Redux provides ...