Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition

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Using Redux with React

Now that you have a better idea of how Redux works, let’s look at the topic we set out to better understand in the first place. Why is Redux so popular in React projects? To help answer this, take a look at the following component hierarchy for some arbitrary app:

What this app does isn’t very important. The only detail we’ll throw in here is that some of these components are responsible for managing state and transferring some of that state around in the form of props:

In an ideal setup, the data that each component ...