React Native in Action

8 Using the Redux data architecture library

This chapter covers

• How the React context API works
• Creating a Redux store
• How to use Redux actions and reducers to manage global state
• Reducer composition using combineReducers

When building React and React Native applications in the real world, you’ll quickly learn that the data layer can become complex and unmanageable if it isn’t handled very precisely and deliberately. One way to handle data is to keep it in component state and pass it around as props, as we’ve done throughout this book. Another way is to use a data architecture pattern or library. This chapter covers the Redux library: it’s the most widely adopted method of handling data in the React ecosystem, and it’s maintained by Facebook, ...