Binding action creators to the dispatch method

Actions creators are just functions that generate action objects which can later be used to dispatch actions using the dispatch method. Take for example the following code:

const TYPES = { 
    ADD_ITEM: 'ADD_ITEM', 
    REMOVE_ITEM: 'REMOVE_ITEM', 
} 
const actions = { 
    addItem: (name, description) => ({ 
        type: TYPES.ADD_ITEM, 
        payload: { name, description }, 
    }), 
    removeItem: (id) => ({ 
        type: TYPES.REMOVE_ITEM, 
        payload: { id }, 
    }) 
} 
module.exports = actions 

Later, somewhere in your application, you can dispatch these actions using the dispatch method:

dispatch(actions.addItem('Little Box', 'Cats')) 
dispatch(actions.removeItem(123)) 

However, as you can see, calling the dispatch method every time seems like a repeated and unnecessary...