Not understanding the purpose of redux-actions...

Apologies, but it’s not obvious to me what the redux-actions package does. For example, I currnelty create my actions like this:

export function doSomething(id) {
    return { type: 'DO_SOMETHING', payload: id }
}

So how does this package improve on this?

[gouegd]

An action is just a JS object with a type property and perhaps others. So there’s no “async action” but you can create actions asynchronously.

You can do it manually or with the helpers that @yangmillstheory noted above. redux-thunk lets you create actions based on other actions. redux-promise lets you create actions based on promises. redux-saga works with generators and can replace both libs above, with more powerful abstractions to handle async events, but in a way that most JS devs will need some time to understand properly.

[joetidee]

So if you use redux-actions, you cannot perform async actions?