Connecting the store to the view

So far, we have set up the state, we have included middleware, and we've defined actions, action creators, and reducers for interacting with a remote API. However, we are not able to show any of this data on the screen. In this recipe, we'll enable our component to access the store that we have created.

Getting ready

This recipe depends on all of the previous ones, so make sure to follow each recipe preceding this one.

In the first recipe of this chapter, we installed the react-redux library along with our other dependencies. In this recipe, we are finally going to make use of it.

We'll also be using a third-party library for generating random color hexes, which we'll use...