The Best Practice on Data Fetching

The modern Redux journey isn’t quite done yet!

Place 5 intermediate or senior frontend engineers in a room, and ask their opinion on the best way to fetch data in a growing frontend application. You’re likely going to end the meeting 3 hours later without reaching a conclusion.

Okay, maybe 3 hours is a little too much, but I won’t be surprised if that happens!

Data fetching is a core part of every decent web application, and there are several ways to go about it.

Redux apps don’t live isolated. In the context of a React application, they live within a React app! This forces you to not only think about “Redux” but take a more holistic approach by considering the entire frontend application.

Older Redux patterns

Middleware adaptations such as Redux-saga and Redux-observable was the best approach to manage the async operations of a growing web application.

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