Another phase at Flatiron is in the books and I finished my first full stack application with React/Rails libraries. It was satisfying to finally put together all the pieces that I have been acquiring at each phase of my bootcamp and create something that was super fun to make!
Along the way, I found that working with state in a more complex application was a little more tricky to manage. This led me to start researching better ways to manage state.
Redux
One of the tried and true ways to manage state is to use Redux. It has been around for quite a few years now and was created to manage state in a more centralized manner and structured so that it is easier to debug. In conjunction with the Redux Toolkit (contains packages and functions that are essential to building a Redux app), it guides you to write code that is predictable, testable and helps ensure your web app will behave correctly. Since it has been around the block for awhile, it also has a…