What is Redux? A brief history
We went over a brief history of React in Chapter 1, What are React and React Native?. If you skipped that chapter, or simply don’t remember, don’t worry. All you need to know is that ReactJS was published in 2013 and it opened doors to creating beautiful single-page applications. ReactJS was an exciting library to use! A lot of people jumped on the opportunity and started re-writing their websites. As time passed, many developers would discover that creating and maintaining large applications with ReactJS became tedious. Don’t forget this was happening before the ReactJS team introduced hooks and context. Developers had to pass props from parents to nested children, going through multiple levels of irrelevant components. This is called prop drilling, as getting to the child component through many ancestors feels like drilling.
In 2015, something very interesting happened: Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark wrote and published a new open...
