Adding Redux functionalities to the app

We have installed the Redux Toolkit with our friendly package manager in the previous section, but we haven’t made any real changes in our app yet. We have, however, thought about the data flows in our app in the previous chapters. The work that we need to do now is going to be very similar. We will start by designing the state structure and actions. When we have both of those, we will add reducers to tie everything together.

There’s a lot of work ahead of us, so let’s try to break it down into smaller chunks. We will start by looking at the user state and how we could manage a user’s logged-in and logged-out state with a global state in Redux. We will then do that same walkthrough for liked images in our app. When we have successfully set up those two pieces of the global state, we will look at how we can combine them and use them in our app. We will then create some actions to handle events in the app. Once we...