Refactor to use Redux

[movingobjects]

Redux looks worthwhile to learn to me, even if not totally necessary for this app

[movingobjects]

Hmm, not sure exactly how this works/connects with Firebase 🤔

[alexburner]

Oh man I went climbing up the Redux&Firebase tree once

I still haven't come back

I think the two might be mutually exclusive, save for wrappers like https://github.com/prescottprue/react-redux-firebase

[movingobjects]

I might try out Redux on something even simpler first—I watched some of these videos and it seemed to make sense, but I haven't actually tried using it yet.

[alexburner]

Oo by the creator himself, very cool! I'm a fan of redux, we use it at work and are pretty happy with it. The one sticky bit: asynchronous data. There isn't one accepted solution... so many options:

• redux thunk (simplest) ← tried this at work, is ok, but gets messy
• redux saga (popular, generator based) ← i don't know generators
• redux observable (popular, rxjs based) ← i don't know rxjs
• redux loop (not as popular, elm based) ← we use this at work now ⭐️

This article has a decent overview of the above & more

But I wouldn't worry about it until you need to, definite fatigue land 😓

[movingobjects]

Well, at least glad to see my confusion is one that others have had. Lots of option indeed, and sad that none of them feel like the obvious Correct Choice.

I don't yet feel super comfortable with the asynchronous stuff in general. Probably best to gain my bearings a bit more before putting this all on the plate.

But, still interested in Redux. Those videos are great—Dan Abramov is a really great communicator.

[alexburner]

Yeah it's a bummer! The react/redux combo seems so accepted, feels odd there's not a consensus on the async handling. Especially because the web has so many async events/actions...

But yes, you are absolutely not alone.

I'll have to check those videos out (sidenote: I also wanna catch up on Coding Train videos, he's getting into machine learning now??)