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Redux Quick Start Guide
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Redux Quick Start Guide

by James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
204 pages
4h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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The need for Redux

The amalgamation of React and Redux is trending over the internet, but this popularity should not be a reason for using Redux in your application. Instead, you should be asking why you need Redux. What problems does it solve? A lot of technical books and blogs claim that Redux facilitates state management. That statement, in itself, is very vague. This is even vaguer a claim given that React also has state management. So, why should we use Redux in our applications?

React has a unidirectional data flow. The data is passed to a lower component by using props. For example, consider a simple state machine, as shown in the following screenshot:

The main component, App, holds the state of the machine and the props. The state ...

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