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I wrote a library for React, Redux and Rails. Allowing you to build SPA without APIs. https://github.com/jho406/Breezy Breezy's insight is that frontends are wildly complex due to the industry vertical (say.. childwelfare), so instead of shaping your state for business, breezy shapes it for content. Content being a header, footer, body as opposed to a post model or user model. This means each page is represented as a node in the Breezy Redux tree with its own header body and footer. On one hand, it is annoying to traverse the pages to make updates, on the other, I can look at any running application and make close-to-correct assumptions on how to update the store. After all, most applications regardless of industry vertical has a header, body and footer somewhere.

Try this out: https://github.com/jho406/Breezy, its a library i wrote that makes working with the React/Redux portion feel like a classic Rails app. Its inspired by turbolinks and doesn't require APIs to work.

Full disclosure, I’m the author of Breezy, https://github.com/jho406/Breezy. An opinionated state shape and PJAX library for Redux. I think “how you shape your state to make it easy to reduce and share between components” is an important topic that’s taken a backseat when discussing state management tooling. Should I repeat my backend models? Should I use a redux ORM? How much should I denormalize or normalize? I found it much easier to just denormalize everything and shape state for presentational purposes, e.g, I have a bunch of page nodes in my redux state each with a duplicated header. If I need to make an update to the header in response to, say, a change in user email, I change each duplicated header individually. Sounds insane but it really works for me and let’s me keep more business logic in the backend where it belongs.

I'm working on an experimental tool to simplify React Redux app development. Inspired by the simplicity of Turbolinks, and powered by Rails. You can develop React and Redux SPAs without any APIs. https://github.com/jho406/Breezy/