5 Alternatives to React Redux in 2020

Reducing boilerplates and cutting out the middleman with Redux alternatives for React applications.

Redux has become the popular state management solution for most applications using React, Vue, or Angular as front-end frameworks. One of the main reasons for the popularity of Redux is its lightweight size of a mere 2KB.

Redux works on the simple principle of storing the entire state of the application is a single central store. This store can be accessed by all components and as such, removes the need to pass parameters and properties between components. The main building blocks of Redux are its actions, reducers, and store.

Let’s look at how Redux works to understand better the difference between it and its alternatives.

So, in a nutshell, API calls from components are sent to the Reducers. They are functions that return the new state based on the older state of the object. The new state is stored in the store, which is the central entity in Redux applications that accesses the previous state.

In addition to holding the application state and controlling access to it, the store also allows the state to be updated and handles registering and unregistering of listeners via subscribing.

Why do we need alternatives for Redux?

Redux and its usage may sound simple, but there are some disadvantages associated with it:

1. There is a considerable learning curve involved. Learning Redux can become further difficult as knowledge of functional programming is necessary.
2. It increases boilerplating for simple changes. As the flow in redux is pre-defined, you have to stick with it. In smaller applications, that amount of boilerplate seems even more excessive.
3. Even a minor change in Redux triggers the DOM restructuring process. Developers do not favor this as it is time-consuming and can adversely affect performance.

Alternatives for Redux

Many alternative State Management libraries have been created to overcome the disadvantages of Redux. Each of them has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Let’s look at some of the top options and understand what they are best suited for.

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How native is React Native? | React Native vs Native App Development

If you are undertaking a mobile app development for your start-up or enterprise, you are likely wondering whether to use React Native. As a popular development framework, React Native helps you to develop near-native mobile apps. However, you are probably also wondering how close you can get to a native app by using React Native. How native is React Native?

In the article, we discuss the similarities between native mobile development and development using React Native. We also touch upon where they differ and how to bridge the gaps. Read on.

A brief introduction to React Native

Let’s briefly set the context first. We will briefly touch upon what React Native is and how it differs from earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is a popular JavaScript framework that Facebook has created. You can use this open-source framework to code natively rendering Android and iOS mobile apps. You can use it to develop web apps too.

Facebook has developed React Native based on React, its JavaScript library. The first release of React Native came in March 2015. At the time of writing this article, the latest stable release of React Native is 0.62.0, and it was released in March 2020.

Although relatively new, React Native has acquired a high degree of popularity. The “Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019” report identifies it as the 8th most loved framework. Facebook, Walmart, and Bloomberg are some of the top companies that use React Native.

The popularity of React Native comes from its advantages. Some of its advantages are as follows:

• Performance: It delivers optimal performance.
• Cross-platform development: You can develop both Android and iOS apps with it. The reuse of code expedites development and reduces costs.
• UI design: React Native enables you to design simple and responsive UI for your mobile app.
• 3rd party plugins: This framework supports 3rd party plugins.
• Developer community: A vibrant community of developers support React Native.

Why React Native is fundamentally different from earlier hybrid frameworks

Are you wondering whether React Native is just another of those hybrid frameworks like Ionic or Cordova? It’s not! React Native is fundamentally different from these earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is very close to native. Consider the following aspects as described on the React Native website:

• Access to many native platforms features: The primitives of React Native render to native platform UI. This means that your React Native app will use many native platform APIs as native apps would do.
• Near-native user experience: React Native provides several native components, and these are platform agnostic.
• The ease of accessing native APIs: React Native uses a declarative UI paradigm. This enables React Native to interact easily with native platform APIs since React Native wraps existing native code.

Due to these factors, React Native offers many more advantages compared to those earlier hybrid frameworks. We now review them.

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Reduce Redux Boilerplate Code with Redux-Actions

Redux has become one of the most popular libraries in front-end development since it was introduced by Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark in 2015. They designed it as the successor for Flux, with the support of some developer tools and a few more concepts embedded in it.

Flux is a fancy name for observer pattern further modified to support React. Both Flux and Redux consist of similar concepts like Store, Actions (events in the application). In other words, Flux is a simple JavaScript object but with some middleware like redux-thunk. It can be a function or a promise for Redux. However, Redux is a single source of truth with concepts like immutability, which improve performance. It is one of the main reasons for Redux to dominate in State Management.

Flux vs Redux comparison source: enappd.com

Despite its advantages, some developers have found it rather challenging to deal with Redux due to the amount of boilerplate code introduced with it. And the complexity of the code seems to be another reason for the difficulty.

In this article, we will look at how to reduce the boilerplate code brought about by Actions and Reducers using Redux-Actions

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Citrix Bugs Allow Unauthenticated Code Injection, Data Theft

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway would allow code injection, information disclosure and denial of service, the networking vendor announced Tuesday. Four of the bugs are exploitable by an unauthenticated, remote attacker.

The Citrix products (formerly known as NetScaler ADC and Gateway) are used for application-aware traffic management and secure remote access, respectively, and are installed in at least 80,000 companies in 158 countries, according to a December assessment from Positive Technologies.

Other flaws announced Tuesday also affect Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances, models 4000-WO, 4100-WO, 5000-WO and 5100-WO.

Attacks on the management interface of the products could result in system compromise by an unauthenticated user on the management network; or system compromise through cross-site scripting (XSS). Attackers could also create a download link for the device which, if downloaded and then executed by an unauthenticated user on the management network, could result in the compromise of a local computer.

“Customers who have configured their systems in accordance with Citrix recommendations [i.e., to have this interface separated from the network and protected by a firewall] have significantly reduced their risk from attacks to the management interface,” according to the vendor.

Threat actors could also mount attacks on Virtual IPs (VIPs). VIPs, among other things, are used to provide users with a unique IP address for communicating with network resources for applications that do not allow multiple connections or users from the same IP address.

The VIP attacks include denial of service against either the Gateway or Authentication virtual servers by an unauthenticated user; or remote port scanning of the internal network by an authenticated Citrix Gateway user.

“Attackers can only discern whether a TLS connection is possible with the port and cannot communicate further with the end devices,” according to the critical Citrix advisory. “Customers who have not enabled either the Gateway or Authentication virtual servers are not at risk from attacks that are applicable to those servers. Other virtual servers e.g. load balancing and content switching virtual servers are not affected by these issues.”

A final vulnerability has been found in Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Linux that would allow a local logged-on user of a Linux system with that plug-in installed to elevate their privileges to an administrator account on that computer, the company said.

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Accessing Redux from Components In React & React Native

How to set up a basic version of Redux in your React or React Native application. To make things clearer, I based my setup on my event application, where users create events that other users attend. We generated the action creators, reducers, and Redux store, and wrapped the application in a provider. Today I’ll finish the loop and talk about how to access the Redux store in your application using both class and functional components. The provider we added to the root component provides the store to all the components in your application. Therefore, we will just look at how to access the store from an individual component.

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A Basic Redux Setup in React/React Native

Redux is a powerful state management tool that can be very useful as your React or React Native application grows and requires you to keep track of more state. How you want to set up Redux is up to you, but if you’re a beginner, it may be easiest to learn the flow of Redux with a step-by-step walkthrough. Here I’ve outlined a basic way to set up Redux to go along with this post and it will be the same for React and React Native.

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