A SoundCloud client in React and Redux

Post by joshuacc » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

antjanus wrote: post #58

fpgaminer wrote: post #14

There seems to be a big blind spot in these Real World React+Redux tutorials when it comes to forms. For example, say I have a page with reviews on it. So there's a Component that handles editing a review. Where does the state for all the form inputs go? Does it go in the Redux store? If it does, then every time the user types a letter you get an event, which goes walking backward through the component tree until it…

We use Redux where I work and we deal with a TON of forms, many of which are controlled completely separately from each other. Oh and it's an Angular 1 app and in production. Basically what I've learned is that you have to distinguish between global and local application state. Redux doesn't have to know EVERYTHING that's going on in the application. That means that when you're editing a piece of text, it depends on…

Post by magnusson » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

Renner1 wrote: post #25

fpgaminer wrote: post #14

There seems to be a big blind spot in these Real World React+Redux tutorials when it comes to forms. For example, say I have a page with reviews on it. So there's a Component that handles editing a review. Where does the state for all the form inputs go? Does it go in the Redux store? If it does, then every time the user types a letter you get an event, which goes walking backward through the component tree until it…

I agree with your point and disagree with redux-form being a valid solution. redux-form creates a very restricted and crippled API for getting form data into a redux state object and does so at the expense of the spirit of React's componentized model. Any redux-form state needs to be isolated under a special root object specifically for forms. You can't just mount some existing part of your state object into a form b…