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Understanding Redux: A Beginner's Guide To State Management

Gain insights into Redux fundamentals, explore application-based problems, and discover how to effectively manage state in React environments with this beginner's guide to state management.

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This course is a beginner's gateway into the mechanics of using Redux as an application building platform. It takes a bottom-up approach, enforcing the basic aspects of Redux before incorporating them together in a creative and interactive way. It begins with a short theoretical section before moving on to application based problems. The course does assume that the user has a basic idea of how React works, as Redux works in the React environment. Let's dive in!

This course is a beginner's gateway into the mechanics of using Redux as an application building platform. It takes a bottom-up ...Show More

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92 Lessons8 Quizzes1 Challenge

Getting to know Redux (Theory)

8 Lessons

Get familiar with Redux for managing state in complex JavaScript applications.

Introduction

What is Redux?

Why use Redux?

Explaining Redux to a 5 year Old

Your First Redux Application

13 Lessons

Unpack the core of transitioning a React app to Redux for state management through practical examples.

Introduction

The Structure of the React Hello World Application

Revisiting your Knowledge of Redux

Creating a Redux STORE

The Store and Reducer Relationship

The Reducer

Getting back to the Refactoring Process

The Second createStore Argument

Possible Gotcha

Conclusion and Summary

Introducing Exercises

Exercise: User Card

Exercise Solution

Understanding State Updates with Actions

21 Lessons

Examine Redux actions, reducers, and state updates through practical examples and exercises.

Integrate Redux in a Front-end Template

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Building Skypey: A More Advanced Example

5 Lessons

Enhance your skills in planning, designing, and normalizing state for advanced app development.

Building Skypey: Designing the State Object

11 Lessons

Take a closer look at designing and managing the state object for Skypey.

Building Skypey: The User Component

7 Lessons

Tackle building user components, optimizing prop management, and refactoring state initialization with multiple reducers.

Building Skypey: The Empty Screen

4 Lessons

Practice using components and CSS to build state-driven, dynamic views with Redux.

Building Skypey: The Chat Window

4 Lessons

Step through rendering the chat window by dispatching actions and handling active user updates.

Building Skypey: Header and Chat Window

8 Lessons

Walk through integrating header and chat components, dynamic message rendering, and contact deletion.

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Building Skypey: Messaging

7 Lessons

Go hands-on with creating and managing message input and submission in Redux.

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The Skypey App

4 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of building the Skypey app, focusing on efficient state management and enhancing functionality.

Create a Trello Clone with React

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Certificate of Completion

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Course Author:

Ohans Emmanuel

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