How to reset the state of a Redux store?

Question

I am using Redux for state management.
How do I reset the store to its initial state?

For example, let’s say I have two user accounts (u1 and

Answer 1

If you are using redux-actions, here's a quick workaround using a HOF(Higher Order Function) for handleActions.

import { handleActions } from 'redux-actions';

export function handleActionsEx(reducer, initialState) {
  const enhancedReducer = {
    ...reducer,
    RESET: () => initialState
  };
  return handleActions(enhancedReducer, initialState);
}

And then use handleActionsEx instead of original handleActions to handle reducers.

Dan's answer gives a great idea about this problem, but it didn't work out well for me, because I'm using redux-persist.
When used with redux-persist, simply passing undefined state didn't trigger persisting behavior, so I knew I had to manually remove item from storage (React Native in my case, thus AsyncStorage).

await AsyncStorage.removeItem('persist:root');

or

await persistor.flush(); // or await persistor.purge();

didn't work for me either - they just yelled at me. (e.g., complaining like "Unexpected key _persist ...")

Then I suddenly pondered all I want is just make every individual reducer return their own initial state when RESET action type is encountered. That way, persisting is handled naturally. Obviously without above utility function (handleActionsEx), my code won't look DRY (although it's just a one liner, i.e. RESET: () => initialState), but I couldn't stand it 'cuz I love metaprogramming.