In the previous chapter, we took a look at the various tools in the React ecosystem that are useful in the whole lifetime of an application—development, testing, and production. We also saw how React improves the developer experience using developer tools. We learned about the various testing tools that can be used with React. To summarize it, we saw how to use build tools such as Webpack and Browserify and how they can be used with React.
In this chapter, we are going to dive deep in Flux as an architecture. We have seen how problems arise during data sharing across components. We will see how we can overcome them by having a single point of data store. Next, we will check out how to use React to overcome this.
Dispatcher acts as a central hub to manage this data flow and communication and how Actions invoke them. Finally, we will we take a look at the complete data flow that takes place, while building our Social Media Tracker application.
In this chapter, we will cover the...