This.props.dispatch not a function – React-Redux

Per the Redux FAQ question at here, this.props.dispatch is available by default if you do not supply your own mapDispatchToProps function. If you do supply a mapDispatchToProps function, you are responsible for returning a prop named dispatch yourself: Or, you can make sure your action creators are pre-bound using Redux’s bindActionCreators utility, and skip having to worry about using this.props.dispatch in your component.

What is mapDispatchToProps?

I feel like none of the answers have crystallized why mapDispatchToProps is useful. This can really only be answered in the context of the container-component pattern, which I found best understood by first reading:Container Components then Usage with React. In a nutshell, your components are supposed to be concerned only with displaying stuff. The only place they are supposed to get information from is … Read more

When to use componentWillReceiveProps lifecycle method?

componentWillReceiveProps is required if you want to update the state values with new props values, this method will get called whenever any change happens to props values. In your case why you need this componentWillReceiveProps method? Because you are storing the props values in state variable, and using it like this: this.state.KeyName That’s why you … Read more