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#Redux observable software
Mr Jay Phelps, who in addition to having been the co-creator of redux-observable, also is on the core team of RxJS, which is a fascinating library on which it's based for many years and is currently a senior software engineer at Netflix. Today, we are going to be talking about redux-observable and to help us understand and plumb this topic, we have someone who's very qualified to talk about it. Let's keep it rolling.ĬHARLES: All right. It's good to have you on the show again.ĮLRICK: Yes, wonderful, man. Hello, Elrick.ĬHARLES: You and I have actually been on a roll lately, podcasting the hell out of these podcast.ĬHARLES: It's been you and me but it's feeling great. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training.

The redux-observable term for this pattern is an epic. These new actions are in turn reduced and the store updated, in the same manner as actions dispatched from components.

When we introduce the redux-observable middleware, we observe the stream of actions and dispatch new actions: “action in, action out”. The action is reduced, and the state in the store is updated.

In a typical React/Redux application, the flow looks like: Action flow with Reduxīefore answering this super-detailed question, let’s review the flow of a dispatched action in a redux application using the diagram below: Redux Action Flow If an action has not been reduced, any state updated by that reducer will not yet be available to subsequent epics. Understanding which reducers have been executed is important to understand what state your epics will receive. In what order is the resulting chain of actions reduced? Is action 3 reduced before or after 2a? In this post we will look at what happens when a redux-observable epic emits a sequence of actions ( ), and those actions in turn trigger epics that emit more actions (eg. However with redux-observable epics, we can introduces asynchronicity into the action flow when actions are dispatched as a result of asynchronous events. In a Redux application, actions are dispatched and reduced synchronously, which makes it relatively straightforward to follow. In this post I will describe the flow of actions through a Redux application configured with redux-observable middleware.
