Redux in Action

Chapter 2. Your first Redux application

This chapter covers

• Configuring a Redux store
• Connecting Redux to React with the react-redux package
• Using actions and action creators
• Using reducers to update state
• Understanding container and presentational React components

By now, you’re almost certainly itching to get started on a Redux application. You have more than enough context to begin, so let’s scratch that itch. This chapter guides you through the set up and development of a simple task-management application using Redux to manage its state.

By the end of the chapter, you’ll have walked through a complete application, but more importantly, you’ll have learned enough of the fundamentals to leave the nest and create simple Redux applications ...