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JavaScript by Example

You're reading from   JavaScript by Example Learn modern web development with real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293969
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dani Akash S Dani Akash S
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What is Redux?

According to the Redux documentation at: http://redux.js.org/, Redux is "a predictable state container for JavaScript apps". To explain redux in detail, let's take a look at the story of flux, an application architecture built by Facebook.

Flux

React is all well and good for a small application such as the ToDo list or the blog we built in the preceding chapter, except for an application such as Facebook. Facebook has hundreds of stateful React components that work to render the web application. In our blog, each React component has its state, and each stateful component makes a network request to fill these states with data.

Once parent components get the data, it will get passed to child components...

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