https://medium.com/magnetis-backstage/why-action-is-a-bad-name-for-a-redux-action-68bec375539e > And a brief reflection on how the way we name things affects our cognitive understanding of the abstract concepts we deal with every day. > First off, a bit of background. I consider myself a full stack developer and I've been working with single-page applications for some years now. I've started delving into React waters from the beginning of its weird alpha days. I learned all the hooks, got hyped, and went to happily fail at coding an application just complex enough to warrant the need for a state manager. Then it was Redux time: as it quickly settled the whole flux architecture debate, I learned all of its concepts, got hyped and went to happily fail at implementing proper state management to a shiny new project with it.