Retrieving data from an API backend is a daily task for a lot of web developers. Using REST is a common way of accomplishing this. Recently an alternative has appeared in the form of GraphQL, developed by Facebook. But what is the main difference between the two? I will now attempt to show you using, of all things, pizza.

Meet the pizza people

Here are two competing pizza restaurants, Roger’s Pizza and George’s Pizza.

I’ve found that testing Redux reducers doesn’t need to be complicated. We need to test the effects that individual actions have upon the state in that reducer. To put it another way, we want to unit test the action effects.

Today I want to show you two types of unit test. The first will test how a dispatched action changes a specific value in your store (Unit Test A). The second will test how a dispatched action changes the entire state of your store (Unit Test B).

This tutorial assumes basic knowledge of Redux. If you have experience using the…

Recently I wrote a fun kart betting app called ReactKart to improve my React and Redux skills. It was a fun project and I learned a lot so I thought it might be useful for others if I shared a high-level overview of the steps I followed.

(note: I’m going to be using some React and Redux specific terminology here so some basic knowledge of both is required)

In short here are the steps I took. I’ll explain each one in details afterwards.

• Sketch out screens
• Identify logic domains (Redux step)
• Design state tree (Redux step)
• Decide actions (Redux step)
• …