handleActions naming is confusing

Since handleActions returns a reducer, a proper name for it would be createReducer. I’ve tried to teach redux to a friend and it wasn’t immediately apparent that handleActions returns a reducer. What do you think? I’m not adamant on createReducer, as it doesn’t differentiate from handleAction. I just think that handleActions might not be the proper name for it.

[doliver3]

Recommendations: A better name for createAction is actionCreator since it generates an actionCreator A better name for handleActions is actionReducers since it generates reducers.

This lines up with existing naming conventions: http://redux.js.org/docs/basics/Actions.html - Action Creators http://redux.js.org/docs/basics/Reducers.html - Reducers handle Actions

The react-redux-starter-kit just added the ‘redux-actions’ names to its module/counter file as it turned 1.0 recently, and as someone new to Redux I would agree that the naming of ‘redux-actions’ was not intuitive and it was significantly different than the Redux example projects. Only the comments made it clear what each was.

[shark0der]

I’d add on this. Let’s take this code straight from the documentation:

let increment = createAction('INCREMENT');

Any person that would see this for the first time would assume that increment is now an action. Well… bad news, increment is now an action creator therefore an actually descriptive name for createAction in this case would be createActionCreator, which reminds me of this: http://bash.org/?946461.

Please come up with some proper names 😞.