Replacing Redux with core React APIs

Didier FRANC
3 min readFeb 25, 2018

The new context API that comes with React 16.3 is pretty neat. It was built in the render props style trending over these last months. Let’s explore it:

It’s pretty nice, right? Let’s go further with Flux-like implementation.

What’s Flux?

This talk from the excellent Jing Chen has revolutionized how we think about our applications today. If you want to know what Flux is as a concept, take a look here.

A basic Flux representation

One library has democratized this concept: Dan Abramov’s Redux and its legendary time travel demo at React Europe 2015.

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