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Learning Redux

You're reading from   Learning Redux Write maintainable, consistent, and easy-to-test web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462398
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Bugl Daniel Bugl
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why Redux? 2. Implementing the Elements of Redux FREE CHAPTER 3. Combining Redux with React 4. Combining Redux with Angular 5. Debugging a Redux Application 6. Interfacing with APIs 7. User Authentication 8. Testing 9. Routing 10. Rendering on the Server 11. Solving Generic Problems with Higher-Order Functions 12. Extending the Redux Store via Middleware

Testing Redux

Because Redux reducers and action creators are just functions, and actions are simply objects, they are easy to test. Furthermore, many of those functions are pure, which means they have no side effects. Pure functions only use their arguments and constants to produce the output. This is why we only need to pass certain arguments and check the output to test the function. If there are side effects involved (which is the case for asynchronous action creators), we need to do some mocking.

Synchronous action creators

We start by writing tests for our synchronous action creators. Remember: action creators are functions which return action objects. To test them, we need to call the action creator and check if it returns...

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