Redux in Action

Appendix. Installation

This appendix covers

• Setting up a server
• Installing axios
• Configuring Redux Thunk
• Updating the Redux DevTools

Setting up a server

Before you can start dispatching async actions, you need to do a few things:

• Install and configure json-server, a popular tool for generating REST APIs quickly. This is a Redux book after all, so you don’t want to expend too much energy writing a fully featured back end. json-server allows you to specify a set of resources (such as tasks) and creates a standard set of endpoints to use.
• Install axios, a popular AJAX library. There’s no shortage of popular AJAX libraries, including the new native browser API window.fetch, but axios is our choice due to a solid feature set and a straightforward ...