Taming Redux with Sagas

React Redux is a great way to handle application state, but it can get complicated when you have to integrate that concept into a natural workflow that can fork and interact based on unpredictable, asynchronous user input. Redux Sagas is a tool that attempts to make this easier. Similar to Thunks, it provides a way to handle happens-before logic and clean up asynchronous events, but Sagas attempt to take it a step further. Sagas use ES2015 Generators to better abstract event flows into synchronous-looking logic while providing additional ways to combine, split, and compare multiple concurrent event streams. Additionally, the abstractions it uses makes them incredibly easy to test. In this talk we'll briefly discuss Generators before diving into syntax and examples of using Redux Sagas in a React Redux application and how to test them. Familiarity with React and Redux is a plus but not a requirement for this session.