Using a Redux Store

Installing Redux

We first need to install Redux, the Redux bindings for React, and their associated type definitions:

$ yarn add redux react-redux @types/redux @types/react-redux

Then, we’ll create a Redux store in our app.

Creating a Redux store

To create a store in our app, we’ll use the function provided by Redux called createStore, which takes a reducer function as its single argument.

There’s a Redux Toolkit library that has support for creating more complex stores and reducers. We won’t be using it in this course, but if you are building true Single-Page Apps with Redux, you should definitely look at it.

The reducer we’ve been building in our page is structured to work in Redux nearly as is. The main difference is in initialization. Our existing reducer derives its ...