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

With Redux if have applied the following solution, which assumes I have set an initialState in all my reducers (e.g. { user: { name, email }}). In many components I check on these nested properties, so with this fix I prevent my renders methods are broken on coupled property conditions (e.g. if state.user.email, which will throw an error user is undefined if upper mentioned solutions).

const appReducer = combineReducers({
  tabs,
  user
})

const initialState = appReducer({}, {})

const rootReducer = (state, action) => {
  if (action.type === 'LOG_OUT') {
    state = initialState
  }

  return appReducer(state, action)
}