Redux

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Jul 2021

Trial

Redux helps us to maintain state in our frontend applications in a more predictable and clearer way. It is extendable though middleware, it has a great documentation and some awesome devtools that are especially helpful when you are new to Redux.

The functional concepts for updating the state, combined with immutable data, lead to extremely easy and enjoyable unit tests - this is maybe the biggest plus for us developers.

The official react-redux bindings also made it straightforward to weave Redux into our React applications. For asynchronous actions we use redux-sagas which has proven itself as a better alternative for redux-thunk.

Currently, we use Redux only in our React projects, but we are evaluating it together with other frameworks such as Angular or Vue.js, as well.