Appendix. Installation
This appendix covers
- Setting up a server
- Installing axios
- Configuring Redux Thunk
- Updating the Redux DevTools
Setting up a server
Before you can start dispatching async actions, you need to do a few things:
- Install and configure json-server, a popular tool for generating REST APIs quickly. This is a Redux book after all, so you
don’t want to expend too much energy writing a fully featured back end. json-server allows you to specify a set of resources
(such as tasks) and creates a standard set of endpoints to use.
- Install axios, a popular AJAX library. There’s no shortage of popular AJAX libraries, including the new native browser API window.fetch, but axios is our choice due to a solid feature set and a straightforward ...