Redux Made Easy with Rematch: Reduce Redux boilerplate and apply best practices with Rematch

Sergio Moreno

Aug 2021 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this eBook

Discover the power of Rematch and its plugins by building a real-world application from scratchKey Features

• Get to grips with the capabilities of Rematch quickly as you build applications
• Learn to use Rematch and its plugins to simplify everyday tasks
• Take total control of the application state and manage its scalability using Rematch

Book Description

Rematch is Redux best practices without the boilerplate. This book is an easy-to-read guide for anyone who wants to get started with Redux, and for those who are already using it and want to improve their codebase.

Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will take you from the simplest through to the most complex layers of Rematch. You’ll learn how to migrate from Redux, and write plugins to set up a fully tested store by integrating it with vanilla JavaScript, React, and React Native. You'll then build a real-world application from scratch with the power of Rematch and its plugins. As you advance, you’ll see how plugins extend Rematch functionalities, understanding how they work and help to create a maintainable project. Finally, you'll analyze the future of Rematch and how the frontend ecosystem is becoming easier to use and maintain with alternatives to Redux.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to have total control of the application state and use Rematch to manage its scalability with simplicity.

What you will learn

• Understand the principal concepts of Flux and Redux
• Find out what the main problems are that Rematch solves
• Become familiar with the Rematch ecosystem
• Develop an application using Rematch and React together
• Write unit and integration tests to get 100% test coverage of your programs with Rematch
• Create a React Native app with Rematch and Expo
• Persist data with redux-persist and Rematch
• Build a Rematch plugin from scratch

Who this book is for

This book is for React and Redux users looking for better alternatives for Redux. Familiarity with JavaScript, React, and Redux will help you make the most of this book.

About the author

Sergio Moreno is a frontend developer with more than 4 years of experience heavily focused on the analysis, design, development, and building of large-scale applications. Formerly working at Allfunds, the world's largest fund distribution network, he led the frontend team to build a full new suite of products for the new digital section of Allfunds. He entered the open source world in 2019 and has contributed to big companies including Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Pinterest, and many more. In 2020, he focused on contributions to Rematch, where he released the v2 version with a full rewrite of the code base, full compatibility with TypeScript, and many other improvements, such as reducing the bundle size in some cases by 80%. He is also now the lead mantainer of the LinguiJS library, an amazing internationalization library. He helped to release the v3 version and took on the role of leading the coming years of development of LinguiJS. In 2021, he joined Flowable as a product engineer, working on their compact and highly efficient workflow and business process management platform for developers, system admins, and business users.