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Discussion on: Real-time app using React, Redux, Tailwind CSS & Firebase - Part 3

 
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Emmanouil Liakos • Edited

I am using "single slice files", like you are mentioning, in a medium-sized app and they are not aging very well. Having state, actions, reducers and selectors, all in a single file does not scale well. Especially when following the "ducks" folder structure, a single feature can very well have 50 action types, 50 reducers and 30 selectors, for example. That could mean an over 1000 line file. Nobody wants to work with that. I think that following the single-file approach is better suited to something like RTK, where you omit creating action types.

Splitting those in separate files and exporting them from a single index.js file seems the way to go, IMHO. Of course there are mistakes and I don't claim that my approach is perfect. There are many (mainly structural) changes I want to make.

However, the code was written one year ago, I am glad that I made mistakes that I can now acknowledge. That's why I plan to refactor and post updates, but this is something I don't have the time to do right now. Moreover, I like to be able to see my progress. I am certainly going to put a warning note, though!

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Lenz Weber

That kinda sounds like you are really overusing that. Are those real "business logic" reducers or is that just api interaction stuff?

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Emmanouil Liakos

Regular "thick" reducers. All API related stuff lives in thunks. It's just a very big module using vanilla Redux.

In an Electron application, where I am using RTK, it scales really well. I think that you have made a great job both in writing the docs for Redux and RTK & in the RTK development itself, it saves from a lot of hassle.

The point I am stretching here is that in order to appreciate and understand RTK or any other abstraction, you have to get your hands dirty first. Keep up the good work 😊