redux-architecture.md

Redux Architecture and Best Practices

Related Topics:

• Redux addons catalog - Apps and Examples: Links to various projects built with Redux, both purpose-built-examples and "real" applications, as well as several Redux usage stories

When Should You Use Redux?

• You Might Not Need Redux
  https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be46360cf367
  Dan Abramov discusses the tradeoffs involved in using Redux.

• You Might Not Need Redux
  https://blog.tighten.co/you-might-not-need-redux
  A similar article from Samantha Geitz, discussing when you might want to use Redux.

• The Case for Flux
  https://medium.com/swlh/the-case-for-flux-379b7d1982c6#.tgrsz3zhc
  The author of Redux lays out reasons you might want to use a Flux-style architecture

• Reasons Why I Love Redux
  https://twitter.com/jlongster/status/780879989164081152
  James Longster describes his appreciation for Redux, and how its constraints force you to think through your state handling

• Why You Should Care About Flux
  http://jaysoo.ca/2015/06/02/why-you-should-care-about-flux/
  Describes the value in separating "reads" from "writes", and eliminating local state. Applies to Redux as well.

Redux Architecture

• Wordpress Calypso: Our Approach to Data
  https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/blob/master/docs/our-approach-to-data.md
  The team behind Wordpress's new admin panel looks at their migration from emitters to Flux to Redux, and describes how they organize their state tree, use selectors to extract state, run queries with components, and persist their store state through refreshes.

• So you've screwed up your Redux store - or, why Redux makes refactoring easy
  https://blog.boldlisting.com/so-youve-screwed-up-your-redux-store-or-why-redux-makes-refactoring-easy-400e19606c71
  Describes some useful practices for organizing Redux actions, reducers, and selectors.

• How we reduced boilerplate and handled asynchronous actions with Redux
  https://blog.algolia.com/how-we-reduced-boilerplate-and-handled-asynchronous-actions-with-redux/
  A look at conventions that have helped the Algolia team write Redux apps.

• 10 Tips for Better Redux Architecture
  https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-tips-for-better-redux-architecture-69250425af44
  A great article covering when and why to use Redux, benefits, and several tips for a better application architecture.

• Where do I put my business logic in a React-Redux application?
  https://medium.com/@jeffbski/where-do-i-put-my-business-logic-in-a-react-redux-application-9253ef91ce1
  Describes several options for managing logic and async behavior (thunks, sagas, etc), and introduces a new middleware as an alternative approach

• Code Sharing Between React Native and React Web Apps
  https://medium.com/the-many/code-sharing-between-react-native-and-react-web-apps-b1e1de22fc53
  Describes ways to architect Redux actions and reducers in the context of a product that shares code between React Native and React Web clients

• Avoiding Accidental Complexity When Structuring Your App State
  https://hackernoon.com/avoiding-accidental-complexity-when-structuring-your-app-state-6e6d22ad5e2a
  An excellent set of guidelines for organizing your Redux store structure.

• Redux Step by Step: A Simple and Robust Workflow for Real Life Apps
  https://hackernoon.com/redux-step-by-step-a-simple-and-robust-workflow-for-real-life-apps-1fdf7df46092
  A follow-up to the "Accidental Complexity" article, discussing principles for structuring a Redux app and demonstrating how they apply to actual code.

• Things I Wish I Knew About Redux
  https://medium.com/horrible-hacks/things-i-wish-i-knew-about-redux-9924abf2f9e0
  https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/4taau2/things_i_wish_i_knew_about_redux/
  A number of excellent tips and lessons learned after building an app with Redux. Includes info on connecting components, selecting data, and app/project structure. Additional discussion on Reddit.

• Developing component-based web apps with React and Redux
  https://medium.com/@carlos_paelinck/developing-component-based-web-apps-using-react-redux-6236bc958930
  Some examples of component structure and data handling in a drawing app.

• Switching from Backbone to React and Redux
  https://medium.com/@royisch/moving-to-react-redux-in-baby-steps-aea0402624bf
  https://medium.com/@royisch/6-lessons-learned-from-going-to-production-with-react-redux-19257f6724f6
  A pair of articles describing one company's transition from a Backbone app to using React and Redux.

• Black Pixel Redux Handbook
  http://bpxl-labs.github.io/redux-handbook/
  Black Pixel's guidelines for project/app structure and usage

• Tips for a Better Redux Architecture: Lessons for Enterprise Scale
  https://hashnode.com/post/tips-for-a-better-redux-architecture-lessons-for-enterprise-scale-civrlqhuy0keqc6539boivk2f
  Thoughts on good patterns and approaches in a large Redux app, including use of action creators instead of dispatch in components, module/container file structure, using sagas for flow control, and more.

• Thinking in Redux (when all you've known is MVC)
  https://hackernoon.com/thinking-in-redux-when-all-youve-known-is-mvc-c78a74d35133
  Some useful mental comparisons for understanding Redux when coming from an MVC architecture background

• React + Redux: Architecture Overview
  https://medium.com/mofed/react-redux-architecture-overview-7b3e52004b6e
  A look at the common pieces that make up a Redux application, with some very useful diagrams to illustrate what they are and how they fit together.

Redux Best Practices

• Redux Best Practices
  https://medium.com/lexical-labs-engineering/redux-best-practices-64d59775802e
  Guidelines for tools, component structure, file layout, and async data handling

• "Redux Best Practices?"
  https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3p9o0j/redux_best_practices/
  Short but good discussion on approaches.

• React-Redux Style Guide
  https://github.com/ghengeveld/react-redux-styleguide
  An opinionated style guide for developing applications in ES6+ with React and/or Redux.

• Redux Patterns and Anti-Patterns
  https://tech.affirm.com/redux-patterns-and-anti-patterns-7d80ef3d53bc
  Some tips for using Redux, including use of Immutable.js and structuring for action creators and reducers

• A Simple Naming Convention for Action Creators in Redux
  https://decembersoft.com/posts/a-simple-naming-convention-for-action-creators-in-redux-js/
  Some tips for consistent and understandable naming of actions and action creators

• Our Redux Migration (and 5 tips for adoption in a mature codebase)
  https://blog.agolo.com/our-redux-migration-and-5-tips-for-adoption-in-a-mature-codebase-dc62322cb921
  Lessons learned from migrating to Redux, including choosing a directory structure nd knowing when to use Redux.

• Redux without Profanity
  https://tonyhb.gitbooks.io/redux-without-profanity/content/
  An online book covering best practices and approaches for managing a Redux application

• Taming Large React Applications with Redux
  http://slides.com/joelkanzelmeyer/taming-large-redux-apps#/
  A slideshow with a number of best practices, including tips on using container components, immutable data, normalization, and more.

• Real-World React and Redux
  https://dzone.com/articles/real-world-reactjs-and-redux-part-1
  https://dzone.com/articles/real-world-reactjs-and-redux-part-2
  A series of articles covering practical architecture lessons learned from building Redux apps, especially regarding use of custom middleware

• Idiomatic Redux: Why Use Action Creators?
  http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2016/10/idiomatic-redux-why-use-action-creators/
  Thoughts on why consistent use of action creators is a good practice, as opposed to putting logic inline into components.

• Seven Months into Redux: Two Things My Team Learned Along the Way
  https://medium.com/@benipsen/seven-months-into-redux-two-things-my-team-learned-along-the-way-5d979c25ea61
  Describes the benefits a dev team got from using RxJS streams and using selector functions to derive data.

• Redux anti-pattern: dumb mapStateToProps
  http://goshakkk.name/redux-antipattern-mapstatetoprops/
  An analysis of a somewhat common Redux anti-pattern, where mapStateToProps is doing too little, shifting all the domain knowledge into the component that should not be aware of it.

• Learning and scaling a React/Redux app with a distributed team
  https://devblog.xero.com/learning-and-scaling-a-react-redux-app-with-a-distributed-team-e4c397def187
  Lessons learned from working with a large application with many features, including use of common components, sagas, project structure, and utility libraries

• Redux at Knewton
  https://tech.knewton.com/blog/2016/11/redux-at-knewton/
  Discussion of how Redux helped Knewton improve their app, including dev middleware to catch accidental mutations, normalization to help with caching, and other tradeoffs.

• 4 Things for Efficient Redux
  https://blog.spacelab.team/4-things-for-efficient-redux-17e87b4cd6cb
  Suggestions for improved Redux apps based on experience, including using Immutable.js, use of combineReducers, listening for actions in multiple reducers, and "aliasing" actions.

• A Year of Development with Redux
  https://blog.shakacode.com/a-year-of-development-with-redux-part-i-a5791e124a7d
  https://blog.shakacode.com/a-year-of-development-with-redux-part-ii-3035ff0b1781
  Some quick tips for working with Redux, structuring data, and encapsulation of components

• Avoiding False Cause
  http://sebinsua.com/avoiding-false-cause/
  Some high-level general thoughts on cargo-culting, dogma, and best practices, followed by some specific examples of problematic Redux code (unclear reducer state shape, managing "editing" mode data, applying arbitrary value updates)

• Isn't our code just the BEST
  https://medium.com/bumpers/isnt-our-code-just-the-best-f028a78f33a9
  A quirkily-written look at how a dev team rewrote their project using React and Redux, including examples of project structure, component usage, and data normalization

Encapsulation and Reusability

Related topics: Redux Techniques - Selectors

• Scalable Frontend with Elm or Redux
  https://github.com/slorber/scalable-frontend-with-elm-or-redux
  A repo containing ongoing discussion about ways to handle fully encapsulated reusable chunks of logic and components in Redux, with a number of submitted approaches being compared.

• Encapsulation in Redux: the Right Way to Write Reusable Components
  http://blog.javascripting.com/2016/02/02/encapsulation-in-redux/
  A look at one way to write encapsulated action handling in Redux

• How to Reuse Redux Components
  https://medium.com/@MattiaManzati/how-to-reuse-redux-components-8acd5b4d376a
  Discussion of an Elm-inspired approach to wrapping up reusable components and logic

• Redux and the Elm Architecture
  http://salsita.github.io/redux-elm/
  Redux lacks built-in abstractions for real-world, maintainable, scalable applications. In particular, it is difficult to create and distributed encapsulated, reusable components. The Elm Architecture clearly addresses some important areas where Redux alone is lacking.

• Scaleable FE with Redux and Elm Architecture
  https://medium.com/@hunterbmt/scaleable-fe-with-redux-and-elm-architecture-c6812ed0125e
  Examples of using Elm-style approaches to writing Redux code

• Encapsulation in Redux: the Right Way to Write Reusable Components
  http://blog.javascripting.com/2016/02/02/encapsulation-in-redux/
  Examples of an Elm-style encapsulation approach

• The Problem with Redux... And How to Fix It
  http://blog.javascripting.com/2016/05/21/the-problem-with-redux-and-how-to-fix-it/
  Demonstration of Redux-Elm, a library that adds composable actions to Redux

• Applying Redux Reducers to Arrays
  http://blog.scottlogic.com/2016/05/19/redux-reducer-arrays.html
  Looks at one way to implement the classic "multiple instances of one connected component" issue in Redux.

• Redux: Encapsulating the Redux State Tree
  http://randycoulman.com//blog/2016/09/13/encapsulating-the-redux-state-tree/
  http://randycoulman.com/blog/2016/09/20/redux-reducer-selector-asymmetry/
  http://randycoulman.com/blog/2016/09/27/modular-reducers-and-selectors/
  http://randycoulman.com/blog/2016/11/29/globalizing-redux-selectors A blog series discussing approaches to encapsulating Redux data using selectors and other related approaches

• Redux State Keys - A predictable yet dynamic substate
  http://www.robinwieruch.de/redux-state-keys/
  Description of an approach for dividing up domain-specific state from abstract state, and reusing logic based on those slices.

• The Power of Higher-Order Reducers
  http://slides.com/omnidan/hor#/
  A set of slides discussing how reducers can be layered together to add capabilities

• Redux Issue #822: "How to create a generic list as a reducer?"
  reduxjs/redux#822
  Discussion of various approaches to the "generic list of reusable components" problem

• Redux-Doghouse - Creating React-Redux Components through Scoping
  http://engineering.datadoghq.com/redux-doghouse--creating-reusable-react-redux-components-through-scoping/
  A look at some of the issues involved in trying to write reusable connected components that can be instantiated many times, and how the library they wrote helps solve those problems.

• Redux Stack: Modular Redux Configuration
  https://medium.com/@jondot/redux-stack-modular-redux-configuration-ec96412a2262
  Discussion of a small library that tries to make it easier to hook together different Redux addons.

• Scoped Selectors for Redux Modules
  http://www.datchley.name/scoped-selectors-for-redux-modules/
  A follow-on to Randy Coulman's series on local vs global selectors, discussing tradeoffs in approaches for defining and managing selectors.

• Scaling React and Redux at IOOF
  http://www.slideshare.net/VivianFarrell/scaling-react-and-redux-at-ioof
  A slideshow discussing creation of enterprise-scale Redux apps built with "micro-frontends" that can be composed together, and a look at a "Redux-Subspace" library to help with that

• Structuring Redux Selectors
  http://cmichel.io/redux-selectors-structure/
  Another article on "globalizing" selector functions, with references to the articles by Randy Coulman and Dave Atchley.

• Instance Reducers
  http://www.thesoftwaresimpleton.com/blog/2016/12/20/instance-reducers/
  An interesting approach to the "multiple instances of a connected component" problem.

Variations on Redux Architectures

• Redux Saga in Action
  https://medium.com/@totaldis/redux-saga-in-action-s-f7d11cffa35a
  Some interesting thoughts on ways to organize the majority of your app's logic using redux-saga

• redux-scuttlebutt; eventually consistent shared state among peers
  https://medium.com/@grrowl/redux-scuttlebutt-eventually-consistent-shared-state-among-peers-191d48102079
  Describes how to use the Redux-Scuttlebutt library to sync actions and updates between multiple instances of a Redux application

• Write Better Redux with redux-module-builder
  https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/better-redux-module-management/
  Describes how to use the utilities included in the redux-module-builder package to better organize a Redux application

• The Elegance of React, Redux, and Ramda
  https://medium.com/javascript-inside/the-elegance-of-react-ebc21a2dcd19
  Demonstrates ways to use Ramda to compose together React components and Redux behavior

• Extreme Decoupling: React, Redux, Selectors
  http://www.thinkloop.com/article/extreme-decoupling-react-redux-selectors/
  Discusses an API-first approach to splitting apart a Redux app into view, state, and integration layers.

• Using React(-Native) with Redux and Redux Saga
  https://medium.com/@marcelschulze/using-react-native-with-redux-and-redux-saga-a-new-proposal-ba71f151546f
  Description of a decoupled saga-based app structure, similar to that described in "Redux Saga in Action"

• Minimal Redux Setup
  https://medium.com/@benevolentNinja/minimal-redux-setup-e6a10fcbcb68
  Thoughts on using a single reducer and a single "UPDATE" action type