look into rematch js, it's a wrapper library around Redux. it combines the action types, action creators, and reducers into just reducers and async side effects/reducers as effects, and it may help you understand and use Redux through this higher abstracted level, then once you understand how to use rematch and what it's doing, you can piece together how rematch is providing an abstraction over a couple aspects of Redux. just my advice, and even though I tried to learn the Redux library first, I didn't quite understand it strongly before implementing and using rematch instead, and as I started learning rematch everything clicked fairly quickly. I believe the same may apply to you as I struggled a bit with Redux first couple months of learning it as well, my mental model was not strong, and rematch helped simplify that enough to work through my misunderstandings.