Rename Actions to "Records"? · Issue #377 · reduxjs/redux (original) (raw)

I love the rename of Stores to Reducers, it really changes how you think about the code, and I noticed that there is some confusion between actual actions taken and the record of their results as Action objects.

Action objects are really only news items and they can be recorded by the reducers but they don't perform any work, that was already done. (started a request, got data from server etc).

Therefore I think it would help our mental model if they are renamed to Records (or NewsItems, Events, ...?).

Then ActionCreators can remain the "actions" they are colloquially (or even be renamed to just Actions).

It would look like this: