Integrating Finite State Models with React and Redux

This summer I was working with an intern on the web application component of one of our projects. We were discussing the steepness of the learning curve for the React/Redux technologies. The online examples and snippets are inconsistent and/or inefficient. An application that I recently renovated was inconsistent in the use of React/Redux and it was written entirely by the same vendor. As I was explaining state management concepts to this intern, it occurred to me that finite state models (FSM) might prove to be useful in this space. To research this idea, I created a non-trivial, near-real-world problem and applied FSM techniques to the design and code. I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. The whitepaper can be found at the link below:

https://sofwerx.github.io/docs/ReactReduxFSM.pdf

Enjoy,

Jim