Store (Saga template)

What is the Store?

The store is the single source of truth for application state. It holds the combined reducer, the middleware chain, and the dispatcher. In the saga template the store is also the seam where the saga middleware gets .run(rootSaga) so every slice's watcher starts listening at boot.

Key Principles

1. One store, period. No nested stores, no per-feature stores. Every slice lives under combineReducers({...}) and is reached through useSelector((state) => state.<slice>.…).

2. createStore from redux (not configureStore). This template stays on plain redux + redux-saga + the devtools extension. RTK's configureStore would compose middleware differently and conflict with composeWithDevTools(applyMiddleware(...)).

3. Saga middleware is created first, run last. Order matters: const sagaMiddleware = createSagaMiddleware() → wrap with applyMiddleware(sagaMiddleware) → enhance with composeWithDevTools(...enhancers) → createStore(reducer, composedEnhancers) → finally sagaMiddleware.run(rootSaga). Calling .run() before createStore is a runtime error.

4. Store is provided once, at the App root. <Provider store={store}> wraps the React tree in App.jsx. Containers reach state through useSelector and dispatch with useDispatch. Nothing else imports store directly.

5. DevTools opt-in. composeWithDevTools is a no-op when the extension isn't installed, so it's safe to ship in production builds without conditional code.

Best Practices

✅ DO:

• Keep rootReducer.js to a single combineReducers({ ... }) call. Add /* istanbul ignore file */ so coverage doesn't penalise the wiring file.
• Keep index.js (the store) under ~25 lines. It does four things: import, create middleware, compose, run.
• Add slices to combineReducers in alphabetical order; add watchers to rootSagas all([...]) in the same order. Easier diffing as the app grows.

❌ DON'T:

• Don't applyMiddleware(thunk, sagaMiddleware) — pick one async strategy. The saga template chose sagas.
• Don't lazy-load slices into the store. Reducer composition must be static at boot so the saga's select(state => state.x) is safe.
• Don't run sagas in tests by reaching into the production store. Use runSaga from redux-saga to drive workers in isolation.

Code Patterns

src/state/index.js

import { composeWithDevTools } from '@redux-devtools/extension'
import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux'
import createSagaMiddleware from "redux-saga";

import reducer from "./rootReducer";
import sagas from "./rootSagas";

// 1. create the saga middleware
const sagaMiddleware = createSagaMiddleware();

// 2. mount it on the Store
const enhancer = applyMiddleware(sagaMiddleware)
const enhancers = [enhancer];
const composedEnhancers = composeWithDevTools(...enhancers)

const store = createStore(reducer, composedEnhancers);

// 3. then run the saga (after createStore!)
sagaMiddleware.run(sagas);

export default store;

src/state/rootReducer.js

/* istanbul ignore file */
import { combineReducers } from "redux";
import todo from "./todo/todo.reducer";
import filters from "./filters/filters.reducer";
import config from "./config/config.reducer";

export default combineReducers({
  todo,
  filters,
  config,
});

Provider wiring at the app root (src/App.jsx)

import { Provider } from "react-redux";
import store from "./state";
import HomePage from "./pages";

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

Reading and dispatching from a container

import { useSelector, useDispatch } from "react-redux";
import { readTodo } from "../state/todo/todo.actions";

const todos = useSelector((state) => state.todo.todoItems);
const dispatch = useDispatch();
dispatch(readTodo());   // saga middleware sees this, runs the worker

Related Terminologies

• Reducer — slices are wired through combineReducers here.
• Saga — rootSagas.js is run by this file.
• Middleware — sagas ARE middleware; this file is where they get applied.
• DevTools — composeWithDevTools is the wiring point.

Quality Gates

• createStore is called once; the result is the default export.
• sagaMiddleware.run(sagas) is called AFTER createStore.
• combineReducers is the only thing rootReducer.js does.
• No configureStore, no thunk middleware, no async logic in index.js.
• Provider wraps the whole tree; no nested <Provider>.

Source: templates/chota-react-saga/src/state/index.js, rootReducer.js