Implementing Redux in Our Funbook App

In the previous chapter, we got our hands “dirty” a little bit. I hope you liked building the Funbook app! We managed to build the frontend of a functioning app. Of course, the functionalities we created were limited. A real-world social media app would be much more robust, with many more components and user flows. However, bigger apps bring their own set of problems: handling large datasets, establishing style guides, managing analytics, and many other problems that we don’t want to spend our time on. We are here to talk about different solutions for state management. In the interest of staying focused, I added a few functionalities to our app that were not described in detail in the previous chapter. I added a modal displaying an enlarged version of the images on the Feed surface, another modal displaying images added by the users listed at the top of the Feed surface and components and styles for the Login surface, and a...