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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
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Modern JavaScript Applications

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Over the years, JavaScript has become vital to the development of a wide range of applications with different architectures. But JS moves lightning fast, and it’s easy to fall behind. Modern JavaScript Applications is designed to get you exploring the latest features of JavaScript and how they can be applied to develop high-quality applications with different architectures. Begin by creating a single page application that builds on the innovative MVC approach using AngularJS, then move forward to develop an enterprise-level application with the microservices architecture using Node to build web services. After that, shift your focus to network programming concepts as you build a real-time web application with websockets. Learn to build responsive, declarative UIs with React and Bootstrap, and see how the performance of web applications can be enhanced using Functional Reactive Programming (FRP). Along the way, explore how the power of JavaScript can be increased multi-fold with high performance techniques. By the end of the book, you’ll be a skilled JavaScript developer with a solid knowledge of the latest JavaScript techniques, tools, and architecture to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Modern JavaScript Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Flux.js


The Flux.js is a library created by the creators of Flux. It is used to build dispatchers. You can find the Flux.js source code at https://github.com/facebook/flux and the CDN version at https://cdnjs.com/libraries/flux.

A dispatcher is created using the Dispatcher constructor. It has five methods, as follows:

  • register(callback): This method lets us register a callback. It returns a string called the callback ID to uniquely identify a callback.

  • unregister(id): This is a method lets us unregister a registered callback. To unregister, we need to pass the ID of the callback that we want to unregister.

  • waitFor(array): This waits for the specified callbacks to be invoked before continuing with the execution of the current callback. This method should only be used by a callback in response to a dispatched action.

  • dispatch(action): This dispatches an action to registered callbacks.

  • isDispatching(): This returns a Boolean indication of whether the dispatcher is currently dispatching...