The purpose of this book is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to develop a single page application with modern tools such as React and Redux with all the associated tooling.
It is like setting up a carpentry workshop. You know how to hit a nail, turn a screw or saw a piece of timber, but when you want to actually set up your workshop you start to find out that there are lots of ancillaries that are required, the more so if you are going to work with other people and for other people.
We won't dump a ready-made setup on you from the start, we will go one step at a time explaining why each one is needed. Do not take a sample from any chapter blindly, some contain mistakes or suboptimal solutions meant to show the way. We won't cover absolutely all the possibilities that exist, there are too many, but if you know why we choose a particular option, you will have a base to compare it with the alternatives and decide for yourself.
This book is available as a single HTML page at http://satyam.github.io/book-react-redux/. At some point I will provide other formats. Most browsers allow printing to PDF. The stylesheet is already set so that it prints nicely. The original can also be read directly from this very same GitHub repository.
The book has links to the ZIP file containing the sample code for each chapter and section. The downloaded ZIP can be expanded anywhere and Sample code for each successive chapter can be displayed by selecting it from the Branch: master dropdown list at the top left of the file listing box.
Once a chapter (branch) is selected, the full code for that chapter can be downloaded as a compressed .zip file with the Download ZIP button.
The whole repository can be cloned, provided you have a local git client software installed by doing:
git clone https://github.com/Satyam/book-react-redux.git
That will create a book-react-redux folder under your current working directory. Change to that directory
cd book-react-redux.
For your local copy to be aware of the material in each chapter, do
git pull
That will retrieve the information about all the branches (chapters) available.
To list the chapters and their stages available, do
git branch
You can see all the work at any stage for any chapter just by doing:
git checkout chapter-nn
This being a collaboration site, it makes sense to use its very own tools to get feedback. Just go to the Issues tab and file any comment or suggestion. The repository is also open to accept edits right into GitHub which can then be revised, discussed and merged into successive editions.
Thanks in advance for any such help.