# How to use Redux with React Native
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# How to use Redux with React Native

**What You'll Learn**

- How to manage state in React Native using [**Redux Toolkit**](https://redux-toolkit.js.org/) and React Redux

**To follow this blog, you'll need:**

- Some experience using [React Native](https://reactnative.dev/docs/getting-started) as well as [Hooks](https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html), [Navigation](https://reactnavigation.org/), [Core Components, and APIs](https://reactnative.dev/docs/components-and-apis).
- Familiarity with [ES6 syntax and features](https://www.taniarascia.com/es6-syntax-and-feature-overview/)
- Understanding of [Redux terms and concepts](https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-2-concepts-data-flow)

## Introduction

Welcome to the Redux Toolkit React Native Quick Start tutorial! **This tutorial will briefly show how to use Redux Toolkit and React Redux to manage state in React Native**.
if you want to jump straight to the code, you can run the following command in your terminal:

```bash
expo init my-app --template react-native-redux-template
```

you can alson check this template on [GitHub](https://github.com/betomoedano/react-native-template-redux-toolkit)

## Installation

Add the Redux Toolkit and React-Redux packages to your project:

If you are using npm

```sh
npm install @reduxjs/toolkit react-redux
```

If you are using yarn

```sh
yarn add @reduxjs/toolkit react-redux
```

## Create Slice

Let's imagine that we are building a Reminders app and we want to make the reminders available to the `AddReminderScreen.js` and the `HomeScreen.js`.

We need to use createSlice to define our Reminders logic. Inside of your `/src` folder create another folder called `features`, inside features create another folder called `reminders` and finally create a `remindersSlice.js` file.

We recommend putting as much as the logic for a given feature as possible into a single file, we typically refer to this as a "Slice File" because it represents the logic in the data for one Slice of your redux state.

Redux does not care about your file structure however we recommend separate folders per feature. See [Redux FAQ: Code Structure](https://redux.js.org/faq/code-structure) for extended details on file structure.

```js
import { createSlice } from "@reduxjs/toolkit";

//initial state for this slice
const initialState = {
  reminders: [],
};

//here we define the slice that contains the reducer logic
export const remindersSlice = createSlice({
  name: "reminders",
  initialState,
  reducers: {
    setReminders: (state, action) => {
      state.reminders = action.payload;
    },
    addReminder: (state, action) => {
      state.reminders.push(action.payload);
    },
    deleteReminder: (state, action) => {
      state.reminders = state.reminders.filter(
        (reminder) => reminder.id !== action.payload,
      );
    },
  },
});

//finally, we export the actions and the reducer
export const { setReminders, addReminder, deleteReminder } =
  remindersSlice.actions;
export default remindersSlice.reducer;
```

## Create a Redux Store

Once we have our slice file, we need to create a redux store.

```js
import { configureStore } from "@reduxjs/toolkit";
import remindersReducer from "./remindersSlice";

export const store = configureStore({
  reducer: {
    reminders: remindersReducer,
  },
});
```

## Adding the React Redux Provider

The [`<Provider>`](https://react-redux.js.org/api/provider) component makes the Redux `store` available to any nested components that need to access the Redux store.

In the example below, we added the `<Provider>` to the `<App>` since it is at the very top of our component hierarchy.

```js
import Home from "./src/screens/Home";
import { Provider } from "react-redux";
import { store } from "./src/app/store";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Provider store={store}>
      <Home />
    </Provider>
  );
}
```

## Additional considerations when initializing the app

In some cases, you could need access to the Redux store in the `<App>` component but since we are adding the Provider inside the `<App>` we can not access the store within the `<App>`.
In the example below we show how to solve this by creating an `<AppWrapper>` which contains the `<Provider>` and the `<App>`.

```js
import { View, Text } from "react-native";
import { Provider } from "react-redux";
import { store } from "./src/app/store";
import { useSelector } from "@reduxjs/toolkit";

export default function AppWrapper() {
   <Provider store={store}>
      <App>
   </Provider>
}

function App() {
  const count = useSelector((state) => state.counter.count);
  return (
      <View>
        <Text>Counter value: {count}</Text>
      </View>
  );
}
```

## Further Resources

- See [the Redux Toolkit TypeScript Next.js Example](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/with-redux) for how to integrate Next.js with Redux Toolkit.
- See [the Create React App/Vite Example](https://github.com/learnwithjason/lets-learn-redux-toolkit) for how to integrate React/Vite with Redux Toolkit.

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