How do I access store state in React Redux?

You should create separate component, which will be listening to state changes and updating on every state change:

import store from '../reducers/store';

class Items extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      items: [],
    };

    store.subscribe(() => {
      // When state will be updated(in our case, when items will be fetched), 
      // we will update local component state and force component to rerender 
      // with new data.

      this.setState({
        items: store.getState().items;
      });
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {this.state.items.map((item) => <p> {item.title} </p> )}
      </div>
    );
  }
};

render(<Items />, document.getElementById('app'));

Import connect from react-redux and use it to connect the component with the state connect(mapStates,mapDispatch)(component)

import React from "react";
import { connect } from "react-redux";


const MyComponent = (props) => {
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>{props.title}</h1>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Finally you need to map the states to the props to access them with this.props

const mapStateToProps = state => {
  return {
    title: state.title
  };
};
export default connect(mapStateToProps)(MyComponent);

Only the states that you map will be accessible via props

Check out this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36214059/4040563

For further reading : https://medium.com/@atomarranger/redux-mapstatetoprops-and-mapdispatchtoprops-shorthand-67d6cd78f132


You need to use Store.getState() to get current state of your Store.

For more information about getState() watch this short video.


All of the answers are from pre-hook era. You should use useSelector-hook to get the state from redux.

In your redux-reducer file or somewhere where you can import it easily:

import { useSelector } from 'react-redux'

export function useEmployees() {
  return useSelector((state) => state.employees)
}

In your application code:

const { employees } = useEmployees()

More information on redux-hooks: https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks to accomplish this goal.