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# Step 2.8
[Lessons](../) | [Exercise](./exercise/) | [Demo](./demo/)
Combine Reducers
This lesson is just a helper to make the process of writing reducers use less boilerplate code. This step briefly introduces to a world of helpers in writing Redux code.
Our Redux store so far has this shape, roughly:
```js
const state = {
todos: {
id0: {
label: 'hello',
completed: false
},
id1: {
label: 'world',
completed: true
}
},
filter: 'all'
};
```
As the application grows in complexity, so will the shape of the store. Currently, the store captures two separate but related ideas: the todo items and the selected filter. The reducers should follow the shape of the store. Think of reducers as part of the store itself and are responsible to update a single part of the store based on actions that they receive as a second argument. As complexity of state grows, we split these reducers:
```ts
function todoReducer(state: Store['todos'] = {}, action: any) {
// reduce on the todos part of the state tree
}
function filterReducer(state: Store['filter'] = 'all', action: any) {
// reduce on the filter flag
}
// Then use the redux-provided combineReducers() to combine them
export const reducer = combineReducers({
todos: todoReducer,
filter: filterReducer
});
```
`combineReducers` handles the grunt-work of sending *actions* to each combined reducer. Therefore, when an action arrives, each reducer is given the opportunity to modify its own state tree based on the incoming action.
# Exercise
1. open up `exercise/src/reducers/index.ts`
2. implement the `filterReducer` function with a switch / case statement - it is contrived to have a switch case for ONE condition, but serves to be a good exercise here
3. replace the export reducer function with the help of the `combineReducer()` function from `redux`
# Bonus Exercise
The Redux team came up with `redux-starter-kit` to address a lot of boilerplate concerns. They also embed the immer library to make it nicer to write reducer functions. So, let's try out `immer`! Look at this example: https://github.com/mweststrate/immer#reducer-example
1. import immer into the `exercise/src/reducers/pureFunction.ts` file
2. replace the implementation of the pure functions with the help of immer's `produce()`
3. run `npm test` in the root folder to see if it still works!
4. look at the web app to make sure it still works!
# Further reading
- immer: https://github.com/mweststrate/immer - improves ergonomics of working with immutables by introducing the concept of mutating a draft
- redux-starter-kit: https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-starter-kit - help address common concerns of Redux in boilerplate and complexity