Maybe that's where part of your confusion lies, the redux flow itself is completely synchronous. I've seen people write async dispatch(), then getting confused as to why it's not taking effect. Probably writing lots of state machines in C helped. Redux at its core is basically just a state machine. Through functions (actions) you invoke the reducers which change the state. And then you use that state in your app. I do agree that the documentation around redux is not very clear at the minute. And I will add that the best tool is the one you understand the best.