Actions are _still_ always an "immutable serializable event". The async logic is going to live _somewhere_, either in your components, or outside of them. Thu

Actions are _still_ always an "immutable serializable event". The async logic is going to live _somewhere_, either in your components, or outside of them. Thunks are a way to move that logic outside of your components. The end result of the async logic is still dispatching plain object actions.