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Introduction to Redux

The greatest love story of all time isn’t between Romeo and Juliet. In fact, it’s not even between any characters we’ve seen in books or movies. It’s actually between React and a mysterious unknown straggler from a far-away land, known as Redux.

The title page of the famous book "Romeo and Juliet" is shown, with the title rewritten as "The Most Excellent and lamentable tragedy of React and Redux."

By now, you know enough about React to understand how it works and why it does some of the things it does. We haven’t talked about Redux at all, though. We need to fix that before we can try to figure out why React and Redux get along so well. In the following sections, we take a deep dive into what Redux is.

What Is Redux?

If we’ve learned one thing in all this time, it is ...

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