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Flux Architecture

By : Adam Boduch
Book Image

Flux Architecture

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Whilst React has become Facebook’s poster-child for clean, complex, and modern web development, it has quietly been underpinned by its simplicity. It’s just a view. The real beauty in React is actually the architectural pattern that handles data in and out of React applications: Flux. With Flux, you’re able to build data-rich applications that engage your users, and scale to meet every demand. It is a key part of the Facebook technology stack that serves billions of users every day. This book will start by introducing the Flux pattern and help you get an understanding of what it is and how it works. After this, we’ll build real-world React applications that highlight the power and simplicity of Flux in action. Finally, we look at the landscape of Flux and explore the Alt and Redux libraries that make React and Flux developments easier. Filled with fully-worked examples and code-first explanations, by the end of the book, you'll not only have a rock solid understanding of the architecture, but will be ready to implement Flux architecture in anger.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Flux Architecture
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Implementing a Dispatcher

Up until this point in the book, we've relied on the reference implementation of the Flux dispatcher. There's nothing wrong with doing this—it's a functional piece of software, and the dispatcher doesn't have many moving parts. On the other hand, it is just a reference implementation of a larger idea—that actions need to be dispatched to stores, and store dependencies need to be managed.

We'll kick things off by talking about the abstract dispatcher interface that's required by Flux architectures. Next, we'll discuss some of the motivations behind implementing our own dispatcher. Finally, we'll devote the remainder of the chapter to implementing our own dispatcher module, and then improving our store components so that they're able to seamlessly interact with the new dispatcher.