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React 16 Tooling

You're reading from   React 16 Tooling Master essential cutting-edge tools, such as create-react-app, Jest, and Flow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835015
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christopher Pitt Christopher Pitt
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

1. Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App 3. Development Mode and Mastering Hot Reloading 4. Optimizing Test-Driven React Development 5. Streamlining Development and Refactoring with Type-Safe React Components 6. Enforcing Code Quality to Improve Maintainability 7. Isolating Components with Storybook 8. Debugging Components in the Browser 9. Instrumenting Application State with Redux 10. Building and Deploying Static React Sites with Gatsby 11. Building and Deploying React Applications with Docker Containers 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Manually triggering actions


The ability to manually trigger actions during development of a Redux application can be helpful. For instance, you might have components ready, but you're unsure of how the user interaction will work or you just need to troubleshoot something that should be working but isn't. You can use Redux DevTools to manually trigger actions by clicking on the button with the keyboard icon, near the bottom of the pane:

This will display a text input where you can enter the action payload. For example, I've navigated to the book detail page for React Native By Example:

Instead of clicking on the Delete button, I only want to see what happens regarding the state of the application, without triggering DOM events or API calls. To do this, I can click on the keyboard button in Redux DevTools, which allows me to manually enter an action and dispatch it. For example, here is how I would dispatch the DELETING_BOOK action:

This results in the action being dispatched and consequently...

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